"Tan Joo Geok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been using libwww for measuring the response times of various URLs.
>Recently, after the redirect from http://www.hotmail.com to
>http://lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login, I have not been able to
>successfully
> access the hotmail URL. Using the simplest lwp-request program:
>
> lwp-request.pl http://www.hotmail.com
>
> or
>
> lwp-request.pl http://lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login (the redirected
>URL)
>
> both result in the following error:
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>An Error Occurred</TITLE></HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <H1>An Error Occurred</h1>
> 500 Internal Server Error
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
> However, if I telnet into lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com on port 80 and do a GET
>/cgi-bin/login, I am
> able to retrieve the site contents. Using a Web browser, of course, also does not
>give any problem.
>
> Does anybody know why libwww cannot handle this case?
Experiments seems to indicate that this thing has problems if the
User-Agent header is not something it expects. If you override it to
be something like "Mozilla/5.0" then it works as it should.
Regards,
Gisle
