Hi again
I've made many of the suggested changes and the script now looks like:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Data::Dumper;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(
        cookie_jar => {},
        agent => "WWW-Mechanize/0.01",
        protocols_allowed => ['http'],
        autocheck => 1);

$url = 'http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/aixfixes.ht
+ml';

$mech->proxy('http','172.17.1.248');
$mech->get( $url );
print Dumper $mech;
$a=<STDIN>;
`clear`;
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/More fix services/) or die;
print Dumper $mech;
$a=<STDIN>;
`clear`;
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/AIX 5.3/) or die;
print Dumper $mech;
$a=<STDIN>;
`clear`;
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/Data file for AIX 5.3/) or die;
print Dumper $mech;

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Now I'm getting the following error:
Error GETing http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/aixfixes.html: Access to 'http' URIs has been disabled at aixfixes.pl line 15
It's dying on the $mech->get( $url ); line.
If I remove the protocols_allowed => ['http'], bit I get a different error:
Error GETing http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/aixfixes.html: Protocol scheme '' is not supported at lwp.pl line 15.
I can manually access this page with lynx so it must be something in the script I'm doing wrong. Any more ideas?
Thanks

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