jonnyfolk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am doing some property searching and thought it would be a fun way of sharing thoughts on properties with my wife (who's on a different shift) by using Mechanize and creating annotations to each other's choices.

I've run into a problem with one particular site, however, who seem to take exception to the script! To demonstrate I have taken the script back to basics and am pointing to their home page. I wonder if a kind soul could take a look and see if there's a problem, or a way of resolving this? (Note: I can access via a browser, (safari, firefox) but not the script!

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use WWW::Mechanize; use CGI qw(:all); use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); my $add = 'http://www.coldwellbanker.com'; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $mech->get($add); $mech->agent('Firefox/1.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; Localization; r +v:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)'); my $result = $mech->content; print "<br>$result<br>";

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Re: WWW::Mechanize emulate browser
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2008 at 11:54 UTC
    That works for me, so the problem is on your end.
      Thanks for checking it out. I've uploaded the script to a different server and it worked for me too. Strange that it only seems to be that site that was blanking out on the original server. Thanks once again...