[conspire] Having fun with wi-fi sippers

Don Marti dmarti at zgp.org
Tue Oct 9 20:57:31 PDT 2007


begin Eric De Mund quotation of Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:27:41PM -0700:
> Deirdre,
> 
> ] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
> 
> Ok, that just lost me 10 minutes, staring at kittens....

But why 

  system("/usr/bin/wget", "-q", 
         "-O","/space/WebPages/images/$pid-$count.jpg", "$url");

when you could

  use LWP::Simple qw(mirror);
  mirror($url, "/space/WebPages/images/$pid-$count.jpg");

I see there's a module for ImageMagick too, but
haven't used it.

  http://search.cpan.org/~jcristy/PerlMagick-6.32/Magick.pm

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Don Marti                    
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