(I haven't really been following so this may not be news. Couldn't see "google" in a recent subject line though.)
FYI, Google is blocking LWP. Part of an effort to discourage parasite search engines I think, i.e. claiming google's results as your own, or trying to figure out the "secret sauce". Google gives a status 403 forbidden error if User-Agent is set to lwp-request. Using the /usr/bin/GET from lwp-request.PL v1.35 (OK, probably a bit old...) the body is stripped off and lost, although RFC 2068 states that the reason may be given in the body and in fact it is, as may be seen using a different client but using the same user-agent header. Basicially it says to read the terms of service at http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html and implies that if you are writing a proxy or something they'll be glad to help. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
