Hi there, I am running a script (under Windows XP) that crawls websites using the Mechanize module. Sometimes I get request errors that "eval" doesn't catch, so the script breaks and I have to restart it manually, which is extremely inefficient. The code in question is this: 
my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck=>1, agent=>"Firefox/1.0 (
+compatible; MSIE 6.0)");
my $url=... some url ...;    
my $filename=... local path name ...;    
my $response;    
eval { $response=$browser->get( $url, ":content_file" => "C:/$filename
+" ) };
if ($@) {
       print "An error occurred ($@), continuing\n";
}

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My question is: is there any way I can make sure that "eval" (or something else) catches every error that the "get" method returns, so that the script can go on? Thanks for your help, this is driving me crazy

In reply to catch errors using Mechanize by snaporaz

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