Question

I am trying to user perl to read a text file online, using a call like this:

$output = $ua->request($req)->as_string;

The problem is that output has a lot of garbage in it that I don’t want, e.g.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: 
etc...

Is there a way to truncate the output so I get only the contents of the file?

Answer 1

The problem is you are simply getting the response object from LWP::UserAgent and just dumping it as a string. If you want to get just the content:

# Get the response
$response = $ua->request($req);
# Get the content portion of the response
$output = $response->content;

It’s all there in black and white: https://metacpan.org/pod/HTTP::Request