Hi scarfguy,

Do the contents of the HTML file you download give you a hint as to what is going wrong?

It's been a while since I worked with Mechanize, so someone else might have a quicker solution handy, but my first thought was to use Wireshark to record a normal, successful session from the browser and compare that to what Mechanize is doing. Perhaps there is a redirect happening that Mechanize isn't dealing with, or the server has a mechanism in place to detect automated downloads, or some header isn't getting set the right way, or something else...

Update: Actually, the AM is probably right, why are you switching from WWW::Mechanize to LWP::Simple? You lose any cookies or referrers that logging in with Mechanize gains you.

Regards,
-- Hauke D