On Nov 18, 2007 11:30 AM, Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I reproduced this and solved it. First, I verified that I got a > proper response from Safari. Then I ran tcpdump to compare the request > sent by Safari with the one sent by Mech. (Regrettably, setting > LWP::Debug +conns does not show traffic unless you take the obscure step > of setting the environment variable PERL_LWP_USE_HTTP_10 to revert to HTTP > 1.0, so I use tcpdump instead.) Then I adjusted headers until I found one > that worked. > > Add > > $mech->add_header( Accept => '*/*' ); > > before the fetch and the server will respond properly. Don't know why > it's behaving that way.
Unusual. Does Mech by default not set an Accept line? As I wrote earlier, I tried downloading the page with the standard wget tool and the lynx text-based browser and neither managed to get the page. Do most servers simply not bother to check the Accept header? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
