I am having extreme problems trying to fetch eBay items using LWP. Try to fetch an auction item like:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1304138736 Note: This item number expires 12/9/2001 perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getprint "http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1304138736";' 500 Bad header: HTTP/1.0 200 OK <URL:http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1304138736> The weird thing is that it works fine with all versions of IE, Netscape, lynx, etc, but fails for LWP and WGET. I poke around and found a document that describes the bug for wget http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01562.html To summarize the report, it says that some of eBay's page (like the one mentioned above) dont output a "Content-type" header, it uses the "<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"" tag instead. Why? I dunno... Wayne Schlitt developed a patch for wget-1.7.1-pre1 to assume "Content-type: text/html" if no header is found. I am hoping that the author of LWP will follow suit. Like I say, most all browsers make this assumption and work fine. Apparently this is a fairly recent issue with these eBay pages. Does anyone know of a quickfix or patch for LWP to deal with this? Thanks, Chris Stuber (mapsurfer) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
