Re: WWW::Mechanize treading lightly

How can you make _any_ decision based upon the extension of the url?!?!? Any of these (and many others) could produce html .. you really need to look for the Content-Type.

  http://perlmonks.org/?parent=565470;node_id=3333
  http://example.com
  http://example.com/blah.html
  http://example.com/blah.foo
  http://example.com/blah.htm
  http://example.com/blah.php
  http://example.com/blah.cgi
  http://example.com/blah.pl
  http://example.com/blah.asp
  http://example.com/blah/foo/
  http://example.com/blah.exe    # even this, if someone so configured
+ the web server
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Re^2: WWW::Mechanize treading lightly by andyford (Curate) on Aug 03, 2006 at 16:22 UTC
Right, but I was thinking that you could at least drop .mp3, .gif, .jpeg just for an easy first cut, no?	[reply]
Re^3: WWW::Mechanize treading lightly by perlmonkey2 (Beadle) on Aug 03, 2006 at 17:09 UTC
That is exactly what I was thinking. Anyone who has their webserver configured to spit out HTML from .jpg extensions isn't a site I want to bother with. Extensions serve a purpose, and while they can be abused, that abuse would negate my need to see their text. Thanks for the input.	[reply]