I think its a cookie problem ...

When in doubt, talk to the web server directly: 

dws% telnet www.accountancy.smu.edu.sg 80
Trying 202.161.41.246...
Connected to iisinternetnlbs.smu.edu.sg.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /facultystaff/faculty.htm HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Length: 1409
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 07:35:37 GMT
Connection: close

...
<h1>The page must be viewed over a secure channel</h1>

[download]

This after successfully pulling up the page in IE 5.5. I suspect that the server is being rude to non IE browsers. Try setting the user agent string to something that looks like what IE might issue. Consult the LWP pod for details.

In reply to Re: Help with LWP::UserAgent by dws
in thread Help with LWP::UserAgent by shu

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