Thanks for you help.
I actualy orderd your book from amazon two days ago. I live in England so
I will have to wait another few more days before I get it.
> At 00:28 2002-07-10 +0100, Jonathan wrote:
> >Well 'GetResponse.com' seems to have found a way.
> >I wrote to them asking why the following code didn't work,
> >they answered "Using libwww library is not allowed here".
>
> I got that same answer from some nitwits at a company that shall remain
> nameless, despite how they didn't feel obliged to help me, even tho I was
> sending them MASSIVE amounts of money to subscribe to their data service.
>
> Usually that thing they say just means "we don't want to have to explain
to
> you how to write Perl programs to access our system, so we'll just tell
you
> that it's impossible, so you'll go away". Sometimes it means "We actually
> try to find and ignore user-agents we don't like". I talk about
approaches
> to defeating these restrictions in chapter 11 ("Cookies,
Authentication,and
> Advanced Requests") of my book /Perl and LWP/:
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001789/
>
> Here's a snippet that might get you on the right track:
> my @netscape_like_headers = (
> 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)',
> 'Accept-Language' => 'en-US',
> 'Accept-Charset' => 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8',
> 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip',
> 'Accept' =>
> "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*",
> );
> my $response = $browser->get($url, @netscape_like_headers);
>
> White hats only, of course.
> --
> Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
>
