LWP::UserAgent and referer?

Keary Suska aksuska at webflyer.com
Mon Nov 26 14:51:36 CST 2001


HTTP::Cookies handles cookies rather easily and seamlessly.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

> From: John Evans <evansj at kilnar.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:19:07 -0500 (EST)
> To: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>
> Cc: Pikes-Peak Perl Mongers <pikes-peak-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
> Subject: Re: LWP::UserAgent and referer?
> 
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, I did this one.  Looks nice.  Problem is now I'm getting a 404.
>> I put a few prints in.  If I go to the index.html and select "save as"
>> it downloads fine.  If I go directly to the link I'm trying to get I
>> get a 403, denied.  When I run this segment of code I get a 404.  If I
>> check the URL I'm accessing in "$url" below against my save as,
>> they're identicle.
> 
> 
> Keary already suggested that http://www.foo.com/ and
> http://www.foo.com/index.html are not the same and that you may need to
> use HTTP 1.1 instead of HTTP 1.0. He also mentioned cookies and I'm
> starting to wonder if that's where the problem lies.
> 
> I know that you can emulate cookies with Perl, but I'm not sure what
> module does it or even where to start looking for something like that.
> Check your system to see if you have any cookies from the host that you
> are contacting for the patches and see if they have set one.
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Evans
> http://evansj.kilnar.com/
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