Not an expert but is the problem that you are using single quotes instead of double. When you use single quotes variables aren't interpreted. -- D. M. Monarres ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Some people have parts that are so private they themselves have no knowledge of them. On Sat, 11 Aug 2001 16:03:15 Lara J. Fabans wrote: > I have www.cobbler-sw.com/images/birds1.jpg > I want to be able to pull birds1.jpg out from that. I thought > LWP would be the easiest for copying birds1.jpg to my > local directory. > > So, the error that I get is: > ./copyUp.pl www.cobbler-sw.com/images/birds1.jpg > www.cobbler-sw.com/images/birds1.jpg: Can't connect to $fullurl:80 (Bad > hostname '$fullurl') > > And the code is: > use strict; > use LWP::UserAgent; > use URI; > $| = 1; # autoflush > my $url = shift; > ## Failed using just www.cobbler-sw.com/images/birds1.jpg > ## Can't connect to $url:80 (Bad hostname '$url') > my $fullurl = "http://" . $url; > my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new; > my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', 'http://$fullurl'); > $url =~ /\w+\/(\w+\.*)$/; > my $file = $1; > my $directory = "/home/lara/image/"; > unless (-d $directory) > { > `mkdir $directory`; > } > opendir(D, $directory); > > my $response = $agent->request($request, '$file'); > $response->is_success or die "$url: ", $response->message,"\n"; > closedir(D); > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've got my nose buried in Dr. > Stein's Network > Programming with Perl, but there just comes a time when you need a boot > to > the head. > > Thanks, > Lara > --------------------- > Lara J. Fabans > Lodestone Software, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]