Hi PerlMonks,

I'm trying to get a page that I know have blocked my IP, so I know I will get an error, a read timeout error. This is my code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $alias = 'Linux Mozilla';
our $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(agent => $alias);
$mech->stack_depth(0);
$mech->timeout(10);

my $url = "http://www.nonexistent.com";

if ($mech->get($url)){
    print 'OK'.$/;
} else {
    print 'ERROR'.$/;
}

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I've also tryed this:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $alias = 'Linux Mozilla';
our $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(agent => $alias);
$mech->stack_depth(0);
$mech->timeout(10);

my $url = "http://www.nonexistent.com";

my $response = $mech->get($url);
if ($response->is_success) {
   print 'OK'.$/;
}
else {
   print 'ERROR'.$/;
}

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I need that the program throws the ERROR response, instead of that I always get Error GETing http://www.nonexistent.com: read timeout at ./test.pl line 13, this closes my program so I can't continue further.

Is there any way to identify this error to act consequently and not get the program closed?

thank you

In reply to Problem with a blocked page using WWW::Mechanize by Edenfuma

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