Hello! I would like to ask you for a little assistance with the following issue...
There are websites, which contain special German characters in their URLs, for example: http://www.pbb-planungsbüro-bartsch.de (known as "umlauts"). I have been unsuccessfully trying to retrieve contents of such websites using Perl (basically the purpose of it is to check, whether the URL is valid/invalid - maybe there's a simpler way to do it?). Here's a code snippet, which you can try out immediately: #!/opt/local/bin/perl use Data::Dumper; use LWP::UserAgent; my $url = q{http://www.pbb-planungsbüro-bartsch.de}; # my $url = q{http://www.pbb-planungsb%C3%BCro-bartsch.de/}; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $response = $ua->get($url); warn Dumper $response; __END__ Well, it doesn't work. It gives me "500 Bad hostname" response regardless the URL being escaped or not. Question is... Is it possible to retrieve it at all? Are there any limitations? Workarounds? If you may kindly help me with resolving this problem, it would be very much appreciated. Many thanks for your help! Kind regards, Paweł Król.
