I haven't looked into this particular problem, but every time I have had those errors it is due to a badly formed reference to the module in my code.

It might help if we could see the code that caused the error in the first place.

....john

Hello John, Well all the examples cause the problem from the example.pod file. Here is the shortest one, written by Randal himself. I was running this code to test the module out and that is when I ran into the problem. In other words, I have not even gotten to my own code yet. I have also been unsuccesfull in getting the latest version of this module to install which is why I went to the prior version.

use strict; 
$|++;
 
use WWW::Mechanize;
use File::Basename; 
  
my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new;
 
$m->get("http://www.despair.com/indem.html");
 
my @top_links = @{$m->links};
  
for my $top_link_num (0..$#top_links) {
next unless $top_links[$top_link_num][0] =~ /^http:/; 
 
$m->follow($top_link_num) or die "can't follow $top_link_num";
 
print $m->uri, "\n";
for my $image (grep m{^http://store4}, map $_->[0], @{$m->links}) { 
    my $local = basename $image;
    print " $image...", $m->mirror($image, $local)->message, "\n"
}
 
$m->back or die "can't go back";
}
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This is the very line that causes it:
my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new;

Well any help is always appreciated. Thank you very much!

Akira

Using Windows 2000, ActiveState perl v5.6.1 and WWW::Mechanize (version 0.43)-- I cut and pasted your code and it runs perfectly on my system. So, perhaps the problem is in your version of Mechanize, or perhaps you're missing something else on your system. When I run the code through my debugger, it does tap into LWP::UserAgent. Could you have a problem there? (Seems unlikely, but leave no stone unturned.)

I know this isn't much help. But don't give up hope, the code can work.

What you were doing was trying to invoke a method named requests_redirectable on your $self object, and treat its return value as an array reference.

You probably meant to use:

    # note the extra layer of {}
    push( @{$self->{requests_redirectable}}, 'POST' );
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Thank you Mike for the answer.
I went ahead and made the change only to get an error further down the page. The code I displayed, was actually code from the WWW::Mechanize PM and was not written by me. It has been around a while and even Randall Schwartz (sp?! sorry if wrong) has included a demo in the example.pod file. I cannot help but feel there is something else missing and that this should compile.

For completeness the error I get later when making the changes suggested above is:


C:\Perl Dev\Screen Scraper Test>perl despair.pl
Can't locate object method "get" via kage "WWW::Mechanize" (perhaps yo
+u forgot to load "WWW::Mechanize"?) at C:/Perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize
+.pm line 183.
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Line 183 of the file is:


sub get {
    my $self = shift;
    my $uri = shift;

    $uri = $self->{base}
        ? URI->new_abs( $uri, $self->{base} )
        : URI->new( $uri );

    return $self->SUPER::get( $uri, @_ );
}
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The return $self line exactly.
Thank you for you help though. It is always appreciated.

I'm sorry, I have no idea what the problem is.

However, looking at CPAN, I see that WWW::Mechanize is up to version 0.57.

Maybe the problem you're running into is fixed in that release? In any case, you're more likely to be able to get help from the maintainer if your problem is happening with the latest release.

That latest version was release on July 31 of this year, so it looks like this module is still being actively maintained.
--
Mike

Hi, I am also facing same problem. If you found the solution for this, please let me know. Thanks & Regards, N.Arul Can't locate object method "get" via package "WWW::Mechanize" (perhaps you forgo t to load "WWW::Mechanize"?) at C:/Users/Matti/Desktop/ActivePerl-5.6.1.629-MSWi n32-x86-multi-thread/ActivePerl/Perl/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 352.

WWW::Mechanize is based on LWP::UserAgent, which comes with LWP. It sounds as if you do not have this installed. How did you install WWW::Mechanize? Please install it through PPM or CPAN, as these will pick up all other modules needed.