in reply to Mimicing browser with LWP

If I leave the keyword fields blank, also with Netscape, I get the 'You must specify some information to search on' error. Did you try using LWP and filling out some keywords?

Also, years ago, when I could still be bothered doing webbish stuff, I used a simple debugging proxy, just a handful of lines with with LWP and some networking code, that would dump all traffic to STDERR.

Very useful if you want to know what exactly your browser or client is sending and receiving.

Abigail

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Re: Mimicing browser with LWP
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 04, 2002 at 18:01 UTC
    When I ran it in netscape, I disabled javascript so that I could leave the keywords field blank.

    Anyway, adding keywords with LWP doesn't help any:

    When I use category Information Technology, and keyword programmer, netscape gives 75 matches, but with LWP it still says, "You must specify some information to search on."


    I guess your idea of writing a debugging proxy is probably what I'll need to figure this out. Do you have it? I could write my own, I guess, but it's nice to recycle :)

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      I guess your idea of writing a debugging proxy is probably what I'll need to figure this out. Do you have it? I could write my own, I guess, but it's nice to recycle :)

      If I still have it somewhere (which I doubt), it's on a tape for which I currently don't have a drive to read.

      Abigail

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      I prefer to use an ethernet sniffer for network protocol debugging. Look into tcpdump, which is free. There are also some very expensive but very good windows sniffers available. Iris is a particularly sexy one which comes to mind. 
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