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in thread Accessing and storing information from another website's database

gjb, Hi! Thanks for reply. I did try what you advise, but it seems that the website doesn't accept any direct URL ..... (1) it's HTTPS and (2) somehow its blocking for external refs to its information. Anyways, thanks for your help. Take care, Surya
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Re: Re: Re: Accessing and storing information from another website's database
by hardburn (Abbot) on Dec 23, 2002 at 14:40 UTC

    For blocking external refs, that is done by checking the HTTP Referer header. Try setting that portion to the header to whatever page the search normaly comes from.

    As for HTTPS, it looks like you'll need to do some tricks combining LWP::UserAgent and Crypt::SSLeay (I've never done HTTPS in perl, so I can't help you with the specifics).