LWP::UserAgent Questions

Martin A has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi.

Im currently working om a script that will act as an HTTP Client and make a request from a server. Now the thing is that I need to set the HTTP_REFERER (and probably some other) field to the server, to fake that I have clicked on some link to get there.

// Martin

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Re: LWP::UserAgent Questions by dchetlin (Friar) on Dec 08, 2000 at 19:09 UTC
You'll want to mess with the HTTP::Request object that you pass to UserAgent when making your request. For example, [~] $ cat > tmp/referer.pl require LWP::UserAgent; my $r = HTTP::Request::->new('GET','http://web2/cgi-bin/printenv'); $r->header("REFERER", "foo"); my $ua = LWP::UserAgent::->new; print $ua->request($r)->content; [~] $ perl !$ perl tmp/referer.pl DOCUMENT_ROOT="/usr/local/apache/htdocs" GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1" HTTP_HOST="web2" HTTP_REFERER="foo" HTTP_USER_AGENT="libwww-perl/5.48" PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" QUERY_STRING="" REMOTE_ADDR="192.168.0.1" REMOTE_PORT="2524" REQUEST_METHOD="GET" REQUEST_URI="/cgi-bin/printenv" [snip remainder of environment] [download] -dlc	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: LWP::UserAgent Questions by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 09, 2000 at 22:46 UTC
Most of the common headers have shorter shortcuts. Referer is one of them: `$r->referer("foo");` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]