Ok for posterity I need to indicate how I goofed. The information was there. The right google key would have been NOT emulation or mimick or etc ... rather agent_alias.

What I was looking for was:

$mech->agent_alias( $alias )

Sets the user agent string to the expanded version from a table of actual user strings. $alias can be one of the following:

* Windows IE 6

* Windows Mozilla

* Mac Safari

* Mac Mozilla

* Linux Mozilla

* Linux Konqueror

then it will be replaced with a more interesting one. For instance,

$mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );

sets your User-Agent to:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

The list of valid aliases can be returned from known_agent_aliases(). The current list is:

* Windows IE 6

* Windows Mozilla

* Mac Safari

* Mac Mozilla

* Linux Mozilla

* Linux Konqueror

I guess I didn't have my wheaties the first time through the pod. 8-P

In reply to Re: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by dneedles
in thread Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by dneedles

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.