Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:39:28 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Charles Maner <ckjmaner@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl libwww--LWP::Simple Message-ID: <20050904213928.GA17782@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20050904172305.32264.qmail@web54515.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050904172305.32264.qmail@web54515.mail.yahoo.com>
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in message <20050904172305.32264.qmail@web54515.mail.yahoo.com>, wrote Charles Maner thusly... > > When I use getstore to retrieve an actual filename such as > .pdf/.ppt/.jpg, LWP::Simple::getstore works well/as advertised. > However, if it's plain html, (e.g., http://biz.yahoo.com/i/), it > does not return an error code, but also returns no filename > either. The identical code, as indicated above, runs as is > beautifully on Win32 (ActiveState Perl 5.8.7) ... > I do notice, though, this site wants to plant a cookie. Would > this be an issue on FreeBSD's libwww port? If so, any idea how to > fix it/work around or should I use the LWP::UserAgent module? In case you think cookies are giving you trouble ... How do you deal w/ cookies in your code? Have you tried getting the Yahoo page that you are interested in w/o cookies in any other user agent (aka web browser)? Can you supply the minimum runnable code which generates the problem for you? - Parv --
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