ok, i've searched high and low for an explanation for this, but to no
avail. i apologize if it's common knowledge.
i'm writing a test robot that wanders around my site. i'm explicitly
setting the 'referer' tag this way:
$request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $someurl);
$request->push_header($referer => $lasturl);
...making sure that $lasturl was the url is sent to HTTP::Request the
last time through the loop.
when i process the request via LWP::UserAgent, the program sometimes
dies with this error:
"Unexpected field value $lasturl at .../Message.pm line 189"
(it actually prints out the contents of $lasturl, not "$lasturl".)
this appears to be the last line in the AUTOLOAD sub of HTTP::Message.
the message only comes up in certain circumstances: when $someurl is a
URL that came from an 'img' tag, when $someurl points to a directory
containing an index.cgi file, and so on.
i've tried setting the referer in other ways:
$request->referer($lasturl);
this gives the same results.
i'm running libwww-perl-5.48, perl 5.005_03 on a redhat 6.1 i386-linux
box.
i really appreciate any help anyone can give me here. thanks!
- grue
http://www.perp.com/~grue
