I'm attempting to fetch data from a webpage using get. The webpage in question allows people to make only 10 views of a page per day, but when I attempt to fetch the page using get, i recieve a message informing me that all my views are used up for today, despite the fact that this was my first attempt at viewing the page.
At this point, presuming that the problem was a cookie one, I went ahead and set up a cookie jar for my perl program - but this didnt solve my problem.

Just now I tried loading the same page using lynx(from the same server as the calling script) and found that I recieved my full quota of 10 pages even when I rejected the cookies.
Where does this leave me?? - what have the browsers got (IE6, Netscape6 and lynx) that my perl program doesn't.
Also, if I'm down to my last view for today in IE6, all I have to do is copy the url into netscape and I have ten views again - so the two browsers are keeping track individually. But, I can also open a second IE6 window, paste in the url and again I have 10 views for that window...
Anyway, help appreciated,
Barry.

In reply to Fetching Web Pages using by Baz

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