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$mech->uri works as you would like for me.

Would you like to provide more details on the error. What does line 194 of bot.pl look like?

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Re^2: How to get back the url of a page
by cormanaz (Deacon) on May 16, 2007 at 20:42 UTC
    I tried $mech->uri() and it gave the original page, not the one redirected to. Sulfericacid wants the uri of the page mech winds-up on after processing any redirects.
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      cormanaz is right. This image site sometimes redirects images to an IP address when the servers are getting high traffic. I need to be able to load the original image URL and detect whether or not it's going to redirect me. If so, I need to know what the address is of the image.

      This is my current set up. 

      foreach my $pic (@pics)
{
   my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
   $mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );
   $mech->get($pic);
   my $location = $mech->uri();

   push(@final_pics, "$location");
   print "\ntesting $pic with location $location";

}

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        uri is always the location 
        
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $url = 'http://google.com';

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

warn $url;
warn $mech->get($url);
warn $mech->uri();

__END__
http://google.com at - line 9.
HTTP::Response=HASH(0x1d7f160) at - line 10.
http://www.google.com/ at - line 11.

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