I'm working on a scraping project and have successfully created a loop that searches a Web page using a list of keywords, one by one, and then saves the results to a file, clicking the "next page" button when the results don't fit on a single page.
BUT... the script always stops before it gets through all the records... This error message would be appended to the dump file: 500 Connect failed: connect: Unknown error; Unknown error So I took a stab at using the $mech->success function and managed to eliminate the error message completely -- but the script still crashes. What I think I need to do is after every click, check to see if the response is a valid Web page, and if not, click the reload button, so here's my code: 
open fileOUT, ">> searchresults.htm";
 print fileOUT $ua->response->content;
close fileOUT;
# loop through the rest
while ($ua->response->content =~ m/nextbut/i) {
$ua->form_name( 'nextbut' );
$ua->click;

           die "I'm failing ", $ua->reload
               unless $ua->success;

 
sleep 15;
 open(fileOUT, ">>searchresults.htm");
   print fileOUT $ua->response->content;
      close(fileOUT);}

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Any ideas -- up to an including an entirely different approach to the problem?

In reply to What's the best way to use $mech->success? by gebelo

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