how to make www::mech not die on errors

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can you make www::mech not die when it runs into an error? I'm trying to create a link bot for my site and it comes across a specific w3c link that ALWAYS kills the script with Software error: Error GETing http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer: Precondition Failed at getlinks.pl line 216

My current script is

         foreach my $newlink (keys %templinks)
         {
            my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
            $mech->get( $newlink );

            foreach ($mech->find_all_links) 
            {
               $templinks{$_->url} = $_->url;
            }
         }
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Without manually removing this bad link from the script, how can I make it SKIP this and any future links that it can't load for whatever reason and move on to the next without warnings or errors?

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Re: how to make www::mech not die on errors by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2007 at 22:13 UTC
Leave out the `autocheck => 1` in your constructor. Then all problems in WWW::Mechanize will be warnings instead of fatal errors. This of course leaves error checking up to your application.	[reply] [d/l]