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Raku module to retrieve a file from the internet by the best available method
use URI::FetchFile; if fetch-uri('http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2016.10.tar.gz', 'rakudo-star-2016.10.tar.gz') { # do something with the file } else { die "couldn't get file"; }
This provides a simple method of retrieving a single file via HTTP using the best available method whilst trying to limit the dependencies.
It is intended to be used by installers or builders that may need to retrieve a file but otherwise have no need for an HTTP client.
It will try to use the first available method from:
* HTTP::UserAgent
* LWP::Simple
* curl
* wget
Please feel free to suggest and/or implement other mechanisms.
Assuming you have a working installation of Rakudo you can install this using zef
:
zef install URI::FetchFile
Other mechanisms may become available in the future.
Please make any reports, suggestions etc to Github
This is free software please see the the LICENCE file for details.
© Jonathan Stowe 2016 - 2021