in reply to How do I add headers using WWW::Mechanize?

You seem to be wanting the web server to return your Request headers as a part of the response headers.
Web servers will not normally do that (unless programmed specifically).

For details, see the w3 rfc related to http headers.

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Re^2: How do I add headers using WWW::Mechanize?
by ppowell (Initiate) on Feb 20, 2008 at 14:23 UTC
    Ultimately what I am trying to do is to go to a particular website, say

    1) https://www.example.com/main/index.html

    But you cannot go to that site unless you are authenticated via

    2) https://www.example.com/registration/login.html
    3) https://www.example.com/registration/login_2.html
    4) Siteminder https://www.example.com/login/login.fcc

    If not authenticated when you get to 1) you are automatically redirected to 2). You fill out a form with username and password to get to 3) which consists of a form with hidden values of your username and password which automatically submit to 4), which does the authentication and then once authenticated your username is passed as a header value all the way back to 1).

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      I have not attempted automated siteminder logon.

      Perhaps this article on logon auomation (obtained via Google search) will help.

           "As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... " - Sir Norman Wisdom

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        Thanks, however, the problem is now more serious.

        I have tried the following existing URLs to no avail:

        http://www.perlmonks.org
        http://www.google.com
        http://www.cnn.com

        Each time I get a "500 Internal Server Error" thrown by Mechanize and the resulting HTML page says "bad hostname (xxx.xxx.xxx)" (for each URL I use)

        What now?

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