Parsing an intranet web page

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

Does LWP::Simple not work with internal web sites?

I'm trying to connect to our local server's web site and parse it but it keeps coming back empty. Does LWP::Simple automatically add the www. to the domain name? That would explain why I keep getting an uninitialized value error.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Thank you.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $appeals = get('http://server24/ASD/Administrator/AllRequests.aspx?
+CatID=24&CatName=Employees');

print $appeals; # comes back empty
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Re: Parsing an intranet web page by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2009 at 16:06 UTC
Does LWP::Simple automatically add the www. to the domain name? No. LWP::Debug `use LWP::Simple '$ua'; $ua->add_handler("request_send", sub { shift->dump; return }); $ua->add_handler("response_done", sub { shift->dump; return }); my $appeals = get(...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Parsing an intranet web page by mzedeler (Pilgrim) on Jul 01, 2009 at 21:43 UTC
Try using `LWP::UserAgent` and look at the response code.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Parsing an intranet web page by poolpi (Hermit) on Jul 02, 2009 at 08:52 UTC
Do you need to set a proxy? See lwpcook/proxies `$ua->env_proxy; # initialize from environment variables # or $ua->proxy(ftp => 'http://proxy.myorg.com');` [download] hth, PooLpi 'Ebry haffa hoe hab im tik a bush'. Jamaican proverb	[reply] [d/l]