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I'm enjoying Test::WWW::Mechanize with one quirk: It fails links to pages on wikipedia

A link to the main wikipedia page is ok.

There is no javascript in the page.

The link works in firefox, konqueror and wget. Per the WWW::Mechanize faq I've struggled to find the difference between the browsers and Mech

The only slight clue is that wget -vS shows that wikipedia is behind a squid caching proxy. --But this is also the case for the front page which works.

To get on w/ my life, I'm linking to gnu.org but still would appreciate any help in resolving this mystery.

Below is minimal but complete Perl / html to reproduce the problem

 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
use Test::More tests=>2;


my $mech=Test::WWW::Mechanize->new( "stack_depth" => 10, 'timeout' => 
+60 );

$mech->get_ok('http://localhost/test.html');

# fails
$mech->page_links_ok();
__DATA__
<!-- http://localhost/test.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      test
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_Lice
+nse"> fails </a>
    </p>
    <p>
      <a href="http://thecsl.org">works</a>
    </p>
    </p>
        <a href-="http://wikipedia.org/">works</a>
    </p>
    <p>
        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_Gakuen_Cocoon_Tower
+">fails</a>
    </p>
    <p>
        <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html">?</a>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
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In reply to Test::WWW::Mechanize page_links_ok fails on wikipedia entry external links by mandog

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