I've been using LWP::Simple successfully in a number of programs to fetch web pages with
 
$url = "http://www.whatever.com";
$body = get("$url");
print "$body";

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Pretty simple ... but all the sudden I've come upon a URL to which this is not working. I've cross tested the code with URLs that work and then put in this new site URL (http://wire.ap.org/APnews/center_minor.html?FRONTID=SCIENCE), but all it prints out is one big blank.

Has anyone seen this before? Is it possible that there some security system on this page that will not allow it to be retrieved?

cdherold

In reply to LWP::SIMPLE fails on certain URL by cdherold

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