Well, generally speaking, server to server will always be much faster, since your not using your ISP's connection, and most servers in Data Centers have a HUGE connection on them, generally much faster then a home/business connection.


It could be that they are using some sort of "browser" test. So you might fake the browser type this way:

sub getURL
{
    my($url, $thegoods,$givecookie,$savecookie,$redirect) = @_;
my $ua=new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("Mozilla/8.0"); #pretend we are capable browser

    my $request;
    
    $request = new HTTP::Request('GET',$url);
   
    my $response=$ua->request($request);
    print $response->as_string();
}
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Try that and see if it works.

If that don't work, you might FAKE the referal by adding this line:

$request->referrer("$site_url"); # get their home page and put it in t
+hat string...
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thx,
Richard