On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Pawel Krol <djgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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<http://www.xn--pbb-planungsbro-bartsch-opc.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; > use utf8; # you have utf8 in your Perl source. > > my $url = > q{http://www.pbb-planungsbüro-bartsch.de<http://www.xn--pbb-planungsbro-bartsch-opc.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. > -- Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org
