If you want to force a redirects all the time, you should probably override the redirect_ok() method in your own subclass of WWW::Mechanize (though it should already do the right thing).

Also check the LWP::UserAgent->new() options.

Hi,

Could you tell me how to override the redirect_ok method please? I'm not too sure how to do this.

Thanks,

js1

Looking at the docs for LWP::UserAgent, we can see:

$ua->redirect_ok( $prospective_request, $response )
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This method is called by request() before it tries to follow a redirection to the request in $response. This should return a TRUE value if this redirection is permissible. The $prospective_request will be the request to be sent if this method returns TRUE.

So basically, you want to create a redirect_ok method that always returns a true value. A clean way of doing that is to create a subclass of WWW::Mechanize that overrides WWW::Mechanize's redirect_ok method.

package WWW::Mechanize::AlwaysRedirect;

# this class is a subclass of WWW::Mechanize
use base 'WWW::Mechanize';

sub redirect_ok {
   1;  # always return true.
}

package main;

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize::AlwaysRedirect->new();

# proceed as per usual with this $agent instead of the one
# in your original code
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You seem to be slightly confused by object-oriented techniques. You should probably take a look at at perltoot and perlmod. There is also the very good "Object Oriented Perl" book by Damian Conway.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

$ua->redirect_ok( $prospective_request, $response )

    This method is called by request() before it tries to follow a red
+irection to the request in $response. This should return a TRUE value
+ if this redirection is permissible. The $prospective_request will be
+ the request to be sent if this method returns TRUE.

    The base implementation will return FALSE unless the method is in 
+the object's requests_redirectable list, FALSE if the proposed redire
+ction is to a "file://..." URL, and TRUE otherwise.
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Hope this helps!

Could you give me anymore clues please?! Sorry I'm probably being dim, but I'm struggling to pick out the answer!

If I comment out the redirect_ok line, I get a page in the browser saying

Found
The document has moved here.
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where the text 'here' is a link to the site I want to redirect to.

Thanks for anymore help!

I wish I could give you further information, but I just browsed through the docs once I saw your question... Sorry

Check out the docs for LWP::UserAgent and see what the variables are that are being called

$agent->redirect_ok(1);
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I found the fix. The problem was in the headers. Here's my code:

$results=$agent->get('http://lhrbod-apdhz001.ad.com/ess/');
print $results->{_headers}->as_string();
print "\n\n";
print $agent->content();
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