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Shavenheads, I run a script regularly that crawls my various websites checking for bad links. Last night my internet connection was down and rather than just producing an error and carrying on to the next part of the script which does a whole of other useful things too, the whole script crashed. viz:

Error GETing http://www.website.com/images/billiards/brass-cross-rest-
+head-PER-033.jpg: Can't connect to www.website.com:80 (Bad hostname '
+www.website.com') at nightlychecks.pl line 2346
 at C:/Perl/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 2705
    WWW::Mechanize::_die('Error ', 'GET', 'ing ', 'URI::http=SCALAR(0x
+93515dc)', ': ', 'Can\'t connect to www.website.com:80 (Bad hostname 
+\'www...') called at C:/Perl/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 2692
    WWW::Mechanize::die('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0x934eda4)', 'Error ', 'G
+ET', 'ing ', 'URI::http=SCALAR(0x93515dc)', ': ', 'Can\'t connect to 
+www.website.com:80 (Bad hostname \'www...') called at C:/Perl/lib/WWW
+/Mechanize.pm line 2340
    WWW::Mechanize::_update_page('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0x934eda4)', 'HT
+TP::Request=HASH(0x9643efc)', 'HTTP::Response=HASH(0x93531bc)') calle
+d at C:/Perl/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 2206
    WWW::Mechanize::request('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0x934eda4)', 'HTTP::R
+equest=HASH(0x9643efc)') called at C:/Perl/lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 
+389
    LWP::UserAgent::get('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0x934eda4)', 'http://www.
+website.com/images/billiards/brass-cross-rest...') called at C:/Perl/
+lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 407
    WWW::Mechanize::get('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0x934eda4)', 'http://www.
+website.com/images/billiards/brass-cross-rest...') called at nightlyc
+hecks.pl line 2346
    main::webpage_assign_check() called at nightlychecks.pl line 560
    main::run_report('HASH(0x6fb523c)') called at nightlychecks.pl lin
+e 289
    main::nightly_checks() called at nightlychecks.pl line 86
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How can I make www::mechanize produce an error gracefully rather than just pegging out horrifically? The www::mechanize documentation doesn't enlighten me...

In reply to www::mechanize - how to prevent it dying? by jfrm

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