Can't get Mechanize get to work?? Should be easy, right? I am using Windows XP, ActivePerl 5.10.1, and Mechanize 1.6 (that came with my install accoring to PPM). I cant get a single URL to work. All I get is "Bad hostname". I copy the URLs from my browser to my code and still no luck (browser works fine). Here is the code:


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#!/usr/bin/perl

# Include the WWW::Mechanize module

use WWW::Mechanize;

# What URL shall we retrieve?
$url = "http://www.google.com";

# Create a new instance of WWW::Mechanize

# enabling autoheck checks each request to ensure it was successful,

# producing an error if not.

my $mechanize = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);

# Retrieve the page

$mechanize->get($url);

# Assign the page content to $page

my $page = $mechanize->content;

# Output the page print $page;

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----------------- Here is the output I get at the commmand line: ----------------- 

C:\Data\Perl> mechperl.pl

Error GETing http://www.google.com: Can't connect to

www.google.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.google.com') at

C:\Data\Perl\mechperl.pl line 15

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Any help is appreciated. thanks

In reply to Can't get WWW::Mechanize get to work?? by Anonymous Monk

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