Hello Monks,

I'm using WWW::Mechanize to duplicate various HTTP requests.

Since I want the request headers to be identical with my browser's headers, I modify them using add_header(). Everything works as intended except for some header named "TE" showing up in every request. 

TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
I tried to get rid of it (see below) without success and I'm sort of confused why Mechanize enforces this header when my browser(s) don't even use it. 
require WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( agent => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSI
+E 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)', timeout => 60, stack_depth => 1, autocheck =
+> 0);
$mech->add_header( Accept => 'text/xml,application/xml,application/xht
+ml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5');
$mech->add_header( "Accept-Language" => 'en-us;q=0.8,en;q=0.5,de-de;q=
+0.3');
$mech->add_header( "Accept-Charset" => 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
+');
$mech->add_header( Connection => 'keep-alive');
$mech->add_header( "Keep-Alive" => 10);

$mech->add_header( TE => undef);

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I'd appreciate any help to get around this issue, preferably without hacking the module itself.

Thanks,
Björn

In reply to Undeleteable header in WWW::Mechanize by javahater

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