Hello again Monks,

Some of you may know of the form on the USPS website that enables you to check addresses:

http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html

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which, in turn runs the CGI script

http://www.usps.com/cgi-bin/zip4/zip4inq2

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Around a month ago, I wrote a perl script using LWP to check a list of addresses automatically. Just today, I ran the script again and got this reponse:

HTTP/1.0 302 (Found) Not Allowed
Location: http://148.129.65.3:80/fwauthredirect148.129.65.9id000386429
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Content-Length: 120
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:21:08 GMT
Client-Peer: 56.0.78.101:80

Your request is being redirected to :<a href="http://148.129.65.3:80/f
+wauthredirect148.129.65.9id0003864295">here</a>.

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Assuming my script was accessing a port other than 80, I modified my script to include the URL:

http://www.usps.com:80/cgi-bin/zip4/zip4inq2

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But I got the same 302 Not Allowed message. Does this mean it is now impossible for me to access the CGI script via LWP? I always thought any CGI script you can access via a form on a web page can be accessed with LWP. Please enlighten. Thanks in advance for your help.

In reply to POST with LWP yields HTTP 302 Not Allowed - Too bad for me? by Shizzle

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