Re: Fetching a link of a webpage (harder than it seems)

This is Javascript magic.

You can install Firefox extension Live HTTP headers to see what requests your browser are sending (and responses too).

And of course you can emulate this Javascript request in Perl.

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Re^2: Fetching a link of a webpage (harder than it seems) by jethro (Monsignor) on May 10, 2008 at 14:52 UTC
Exactly. But be prepared that the website might change the javascript slightly on each invocation of the website (especially in the form of keys for a sort of challenge response protocol) that you would have to extract from the code.	[reply]