Sibling monks, I humbly request guidance. I am making a news crawler, and I use LWP::Simple to get selected index pages from which I take links. But some of these pages use ASP, and I think that sometimes breaks stuff... or maybe it's something else. When I do 
use LWP::Simple;
my $html = get 'http://www.iran-news.com/asp/view_iran.asp?Id=INTERNAT
+IONAL&id2=INTERNATIONAL00.jpg';

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I get nothing. Even though cutting and pasting the link into the browser brings up a genuine page, and although 
$html = get 'http://www.gulf-news.com/news/2001/1219/news_world.asp';

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produces a page.

Can anybody tell me what I can do to make the first one work?

§ George Sherston

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