in reply to Fetching a link of a webpage (harder than it seems)

If you really want a good answer, we need to know what you are getting, and what do you expect to get.
At this point, I'll risk a guess, since you say you get different results than you get from a browser, it might be that you need to set your useragent to a browser's one:

my $userAgent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$userAgent->agent('Mozilla/5.0');

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The default one used by LWP:: is sometimes blocked or routed by different sites.

Stop saying 'script'. Stop saying 'line-noise'.
We have nothing to lose but our metaphors.

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Re^2: Fetching a link of a webpage (harder than it seems)
by danielson (Initiate) on May 10, 2008 at 11:46 UTC
    It don't dare to send you the fetched file as it takes 26k (but I can!), but it is similar to the one you can see in firefox, except that the two frames are missing (the one on the left-hand side with book details, as well as the one on the right-hand side with page content and the "next page" button whose link I need). Hence, there is actually nothing between the search box and the bottom line " * © 2008 Microsoft | * Privacy | * Legal" etc.

    The specific bit I need is this:
    <a id="PAGENEXT" href="#t=M-BkRr2dwOhxBBOAGBtqhg&amp;page=1&amp;sq=" title="Go to next page" class="button"><img src="http://books.live.com/s/books/page_next_normal.gif" class="icon navButtonIcon"></a>

    Thanks for your suggestion, but I had already set the user agent.
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