Change that user-agent string to something valid instead of myagent.

When I hit facebook with that script I get a Location header item as expected.

Regarding autocheck=>1, from WWW::Mechanize manpage:

Checks each request made to see if it was successful. This saves you t
+he trouble of manually checking yourself. Any errors found are errors
+, not warnings.

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Setting max_redirect=0 is good for making sure things work and gives you all control. But there is an easier way to do it:

$m->max_redirect(3); # whatever redirects you may thing you will get o
+r more
my $content = $m->post($uri);

my $ri=0;
foreach my $aredirect ($content->redirects()){
        $ri++;
        print "REDIRECT $ri ******\n".($aredirect->as_string())."\nEND
+ ****\n\n";  
}

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That is, you loop through the headers of each of the redirects encountered to get what you need and at the same time you are at your final URL to hit login.

bw, bliako

In reply to Re^5: WWW::Mechnize redirect handling by bliako
in thread [Solved] WWW::Mechnize redirect handling by nikster

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