Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize?

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

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Re: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 11, 2010 at 21:28 UTC
Here is all the answers ... use wireshark, livehttpheaders ... or WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, WWW::Scripter, or Win32::IE::Mechanize via WINE	[reply]
Re^2: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by dneedles (Sexton) on Aug 11, 2010 at 22:13 UTC
The issue from the previous post was that WIN32:IE:Mechanize appears to not work correctly with frames. Google and perlmonk searches turned up questions back to 2005 but no real answers. So using WINE won't work I guess I could use a sniffer/tracer as the other solutions suggest and hack out a solution but I figured this sort of problem must have come up before. If possible I wanted to save the few days of troubleshooting. Is there any provisions in LWP or Mechanize for simulating a particular browser? Or any ideas on the original post? - http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=854131 Or is RTF-packets is the only solution here Thanks!	[reply]
Re^3: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 11, 2010 at 22:18 UTC
Why don't you go and read the links you've already been given? Also see what WWW::Mechanize has to say about its browser "emulation".	[reply]
Re^4: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by pemungkah (Priest) on Aug 12, 2010 at 00:23 UTC
Re^5: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by dneedles (Sexton) on Aug 12, 2010 at 14:51 UTC
Re^4: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by dneedles (Sexton) on Aug 12, 2010 at 00:19 UTC
Re^5: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 12, 2010 at 07:25 UTC
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Re: Mimicking Internet Explorer (IE) via LWP or Mechanize? by dneedles (Sexton) on Aug 12, 2010 at 16:00 UTC
Ok for posterity I need to indicate how I goofed. The information was there. The right google key would have been NOT emulation or mimick or etc ... rather agent_alias. What I was looking for was: $mech->agent_alias( $alias ) Sets the user agent string to the expanded version from a table of actual user strings. $alias can be one of the following: * Windows IE 6 * Windows Mozilla * Mac Safari * Mac Mozilla * Linux Mozilla * Linux Konqueror then it will be replaced with a more interesting one. For instance, $mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' ); sets your User-Agent to: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) The list of valid aliases can be returned from known_agent_aliases(). The current list is: * Windows IE 6 * Windows Mozilla * Mac Safari * Mac Mozilla * Linux Mozilla * Linux Konqueror I guess I didn't have my wheaties the first time through the pod. 8-P	[reply]