Hi, Instead of simply using the get method of mechanize the way it is suggested, like this.... 
$m->get($link);

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....where $link is a WWW::Mechanize::Link object, I found that occasionaly it would hang up if the URL was invalid and my program would stop working. Because of this, it was suggested that I change my code so that it now reads like this.... 
        my $connected = eval {
          $m->get($link);
          1
        };
        if (! $connected) {
           #do something else
        }

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....and this seemed to do the trick. However, after getting a few hundred valid URLs, all of a sudden, even this way of constructing it failed to move on when a perfectly valid link was found as follows... http://www.aaaedm.com/contact.htm ....this particular link was found by a previous fetch using the get method. If you try to go to that URL in IE, nothing unusual happens, yet my $m->get just doesn't work at all, hanging up the program at that point, even though there's nothing at all wrong with that URL. Can anyone tell me why $m->get fails for this particular web address after previously working correctly on hundreds of other URLs? Since I have about 10,000 more to go through, I assume the same problem is going to happen again. Perhaps if I knew why it was happening, I could come up with some sort of solution. thanks!

In reply to WWW::Mechanize get doesn't work by zingbust

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