Re: Test::WWW::Mechanize page_links_ok fails on wikipedia entry external links

You might experiment with different user agent settings; and/or view Wikipedia's robots.txt for clues.

HTH,

planetscape

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Re^2: Test::WWW::Mechanize page_links_ok fails on wikipedia entry external links by mandog (Curate) on Feb 05, 2009 at 21:38 UTC
Yep, robots.txt / user-agent exclusion is the problem `$mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );` works with wikipedia but for some reason not gnu.org `$mech->agent_alias('Linux Mozilla');` works for both. I guess if wikipedia doesn't want mech scraping, I won't do it. Thanks for your help planetscape, email: mandog	[reply] [d/l] [select]