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Hi, I am using $mech->get($url); to get the contents of a link. But that link seems to send the following message first: "Please wait.. the page is loading". So as soon as the the message is returned the mech object stops. Any idea of how to make $mech wait till the full page is loaded. Thanks Hemanth
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Re: wait till the page is loaded www::mechanize
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2005 at 03:56 UTC
    The result probably has a Refresh header or http-refresh meta tag. Extract it and perform as directed.
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      Thank you. As you said the page was sending a refresh header with another URL.
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Re: wait till the page is loaded www::mechanize
by gube (Parson) on Jul 20, 2005 at 03:59 UTC

    Hi try this, 

    use strict;

use WWW::Mechanize;

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

$mech->get( 'https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox
+' );

$mech->success()    ||    die"$mech->status()";
print $mech->content;

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      Hi gube,

      I am getting error message 

      Error GETing https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox
+%0A+: Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported (Crypt::SSLeay not ins
+talled) at page.pl line 7

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