linux - PERL executable size getting reduced automatically after few days

I wrote a script, so I can automatically download from a hotfile using LWP::UserAgent. I've managed to get the file to download properly. How do I get the file size of the file before downloading?

I need this to display hot much of the file has been downloaded.

Here is a short snippet that does this.

use LWP::UserAgent;

sub GetFileSize{
    my $url=shift;
    $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
    $ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0");
    my $req = new HTTP::Request 'HEAD' => $url;
    $req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
    $res = $ua->request($req);
    if ($res->is_success) {
        my $headers = $res->headers;
        return $headers;
    }
    return 0;
}

$link = 'http://www.domain.com/anyfile.zip';
$header = GetFileSize($link);

print "File size: " . $header->content_length . " bytes\n";
print "Last moified: " . localtime($header->last_modified) . "\n";
exit;

Source

Just getting the size is really simple:

use LWP::Simple;

my $url='http://www.superuser.com/favicon.ico';
my ($type, $size) = head($url) or die "ERROR $url: $!";
print "$url: type: $type, size: $size$/";

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However, for a real progress indicator you have to register a callback, like so:

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url='http://superuser.com/questions/200468/how-to-get-file-size-before-downloading-the-file-lwpuseragent?rq=1';#'http://www.superuser.com/favicon.ico';
my $ttlDown = 0;
my $resp = LWP::UserAgent->new()->get($url, ':content_cb' => sub {
      my ($data, $response) = @_;
      my $size = $response->content_length;
      $ttlDown += length $data;
      printf("%7.1f KB of %7.1f (%5.1f%%)$/", 
        $ttlDown / 1024.0, $size / 1024.0, $ttlDown * 100.0 / $size
      );
      ##### TODO: append $data to file #####
});
print "$/-----$/".$resp->as_string();

Note the ##### TODO line: you might want to write the received bytes to disk there.

The above answer by Nifle helped me a lot. I just like to add that for an authenticated HTTP site, you need to add just one line, $req->authorization_basic( "$name", "$pwd" ); And it works fine.

sub GetFileSize{
    my $url=shift;
    my $name = shift;
    my $pwd = shift;

    my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    $browser->agent("Mozilla/5.0");
    my $req =  HTTP::Request->new( HEAD => "$url");
    $req->authorization_basic( "$name", "$pwd" );

    $req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
    my $res = $browser->request($req);
    if ($res->is_success) {
        my $headers = $res->headers;
        return $headers->content_length;
    }
    return 0;
}