Esteemed Monks -

I am currently writing a simple script based on the Mechnize module to download a bunch of PDFs from a website. The problem I am encountering is that the site seems to contain a link which points to a document that is unavailable on the server. As a result, the GET method returns the following error:

Error GETing <URL>: Not Found at extract.pl line 86

I have tried to incorporate robust handling of such error messages like this: 
sub download()
{
    my $doc = shift @_;

    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize -> new();
        
    return unless defined( $mech -> get( $doc ) );
    
    my $link = $mech -> find_link( url_regex => qr/\.pdf/ );
    return unless defined( $link );
    
    $link = $link -> url_abs;
    return unless ( $mech -> get ( $link ) );   # This is the GET oper
+ation which fails.

    my $name = $1 if $link =~/.+\/(.+\.pdf)/;    
    $mech -> save_content(  $name );
}

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Unfortunately, the script still aborts as soon as the broken link is encountered.

Can you please advise how I can modify my code in order for the script to continue downloading even when broken links are hit upon?

Thanks in advance and best regards -

Pat

In reply to Robust Handling of Broken Links in Mechanize? by pat_mc

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