One thing you should know: The Web site wire.ap.org looks at the referring url from every http request it gets before giving you the page. That's because wire.ap.org frames the content with the referrer's top navigation. If it does not find a referrer (or that referrer is not in AP's list of partner sites), it tosses you to the "select a state" page.

This referrer check is most likely causing the troubles you're having here. If you find a way to get past that, the user agent check, cookies, javascript test, and the funny frames will also make things interesting.

For an example of what happens when wire.ap.org doesn't see a happy shiny user agent, use Netscape and turn off Javascript support -- then go to that url. It gives you nothing.

For an example of the framing, go to projo.com and click on one of the stories in the "Top Stories from the AP" box. See the lovely frame at the top? Oooohh.. Aaaahhh..

From what I gathered after speaking with the webmaster, there's all kinds of funky stuff going on with this site to keep people from scrubbing it for news.

In reply to It's not your fault... Or LWP's fault. by joealba
in thread LWP::SIMPLE fails on certain URL by cdherold

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