Ankit.11nov has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech=WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $URL="http://in.yahoo.com/";
$mech->get($URL);

$mech->follow_link(text => 'Movies');

my $file=$mech->content();
open FILE_OUT , ">output.html" or die "$!";
print FILE_OUT $file;
close FILE_OUT;

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This piece of code works fine when I am accessing Moive Link on the Yahoo web page and store it to a file.
But when I am trying to access yahoo Mail with the same piece of code except replacing the Line 7 with the below piece of code to access mail link. 
$mech->follow_link(text => 'Mail');

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It is giving me the below error
Error GETing https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=in: Can't connect to logi n.yahoo.com:443 (Bad hostname 'login.yahoo.com') at mech.pl line 8
Can someone please help me as to why it behaves differently for Mail login page
Note : Crypt-SSLeay.ppd package is installed

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Re: Accessing web page
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 24, 2009 at 10:20 UTC

    This seems to me like it should be a reply to Fetching web page rather than a new post. Does your system use an HTTPS proxy? If so please read the WWW::Mechanize documentation reagarding explicitly setting noproxy => 0 when using Crypt::SSLeay.

    Hope this helps,

    Martin

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      use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech=WWW::Mechanize->new(noproxy => 0);
my $URL="http://in.yahoo.com/";
$mech->get($URL);

$mech->follow_link(text => 'Mail');

my $file=$mech->content();
open FILE_OUT , ">output.html" or die "$!";
print FILE_OUT $file;
close FILE_OUT;

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      Modified the code but still getting the same error.
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        So you are using a HTTPS Proxy? Did you set the HTTPS_PROXY environment varialble as describe in the documentation I linked to previously?

        Martin

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Re: Accessing web page
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 24, 2009 at 10:29 UTC
    bad hostname means dns lookup failure, outside perl control. It happens frequent behind proxy/firewall, or with broken "dns client" (WinXP) service
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Re: Accessing web page
by leocharre (Priest) on Jul 24, 2009 at 14:36 UTC

    That code works fine.

    I get an output.html file with content.. 

        

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/T
+R/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Yahoo! India Movies - Bollywood News | Movies Reviews |
+ Film Trailers</title>
        <meta name="description" content="New movie reviews & latest b
+ollywood movie news from Yahoo! India Movies. Includes new movie trai
+lers, latest bollywood releases, movie showtimes, bollywood movie lis
+ting , celebrity photos, cinema showtimes and more on Yahoo! Movies"/
+>
        <meta name="keywords" content="yahoo movies india, bollywood i
+ndia, hindi film reviews, bollywood movie trailers, movie previews, b
+ox office results, movie news, India movies, movie posters, movie wal
+l papers, movie photos, interviews" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://l.yimg.com
+/t/movies/20090709/css/yim_home_min.css">

    </head>
    <body id="yahoo">
        <div id="doc" class="yui-t1">
                        <!-- HEADER STARTS -->
            <div id="header" class="header">
                <div class="top_nav">
                    <div class="lftlinks">
                        <a href="http://www.in.yahoo.com">Yahoo !</a>&
+nbsp;|&nbsp;
                        <a href="http://in.my.yahoo.com">My Yahoo !</a
+>&nbsp;|&nbsp;
 . . .. . . .

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    Htpps rawks!

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      I think you were running the code with Movies as the follow Link option. Please comment that out and add this line to the code and then run it. 
      $mech->follow_link(text => 'Mail');

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      I am still getting the below error any pointers how this can be solved.
      Error GETing https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=in: Can't connect to logi n.yahoo.com:443 (Bad hostname 'login.yahoo.com') at mech.pl line 8
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