in reply to LWP::UserAgent can't login to phpbb forum

Yes Sir! It is definitely a case of blatant discrimination of our most beloved Perl-tools by those guys at the PHPBB. As soon as it detects a Perl-based user agent it will not allow you to log in, it will log your IP, put it on a black-list, give your e-mail address to the spammers, steal your identity, buy kinky stuf in your name, wipe out and reformat your hard-disks (and CDs and DVDS too for good measure) and all that from a carefully crafted web-page with some black PHP-code in it.

Oops, it is already 3rd of April. I missed 1st of April by two days.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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