----- Original Message ----- From: "Jody Belka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: Re: URL wierdness...
> IMAP HILLWAY\ said: > > > > Now... this works fine for almost every URL I can think of apart from 2: > > http://www.acxiom.co.uk & http://www.acxiom.com > > These 2 both return "500 Internal Server Error" but work fine if you go > > to them with a browser! > > bit of checking and it seems that they're using the Accept-Language > header, and don't imagine you might not send it. if you add that to the > request (a simple en or en-us will do the trick) then things work > properly. really bad form on their side of course. > > Jody Thanks Jody. That did the trick.... new code is: <snip> use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request; use HTTP::Request::Common; my $browser; my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0'); $ua->timeout(15); my $url = 'http://www.acxiom.co.uk'; my $req = new HTTP::Request; my $res = $ua->request(GET $url, 'Accept-Language' => 'en'); </snip>
