Gisle, First, let me say thanks for some great modules!
>There is actually no easy way to do that. They are inserted by the >protocol module when it feels they are appropriate. Can you explain >why you need them to to go away? I need them to go away because I want Perl to look just like an application that normally requests the data I'm looking for. The app doesn't write "Connection" or "TA" headers, so I don't want Perl to write them either. After all, why bother spoofing a user-agent string if you proceed to send some other headers that immediately fingerprint you as a perl script? >The "Connection: close" will go away of you pass the keep_alive option >to the LWP::UserAgent. If you insist hard on the "TE" header to be >disabled you you try something like: > > push(@LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS, SendTE => 0); > >before you send your first request. Thanks! That succeeded in nuking the "TA" header. But, I'm still getting the "Connection" header when I use: my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1); I've simply managed to change the "Connection: close" into "Connection: Keep-Alive". Any advice, or am I stuck? Thanks, Phil ps. I also looked at Net::HTTP as a lower-level option for what I'm doing, but I need the proxy feature from LWP::UserAgent.
