scratchpad
zentara
<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET);
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $url ='https://zentara.zentara.net/~zentara/zentara1.avi';
my $filename = substr( $url, rindex( $url, "/" ) + 1 );
#print "$filename\n";
open( IN, ">$filename" ) or die $!;
my $user = 'zentara';
my $pass = 'foobar';
my $expected_length;
my $bytes_received = 0;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->protocols_allowed( [ 'https'] );
#setup request
my $req = GET($url);
$req->authorization_basic($user, $pass);
#do it
my $response = $ua->request($req);
if ($response->is_error())
{
printf " %s\n", $response->status_line;
print "https request error!\n";
} else {
my $content = $response->content();
print IN $content;
}
print $response->status_line;
close IN;
exit;
</code>