LWP::UserAgent and referer?

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net
Mon Nov 26 14:58:52 CST 2001


Is there a way to find out what cookies it's setting with HTTP::Cookies?
Got a good example of some code I can poke?


Thus spake Keary Suska (aksuska at webflyer.com):

> 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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> > 



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