"Library for WWW in Perl" (libwww-perl) is a set of Perl modules that give Perl programming easy access to sending requests to the World Wide Web. libwww-perl provides an application programming interface to an HTTP client as well as a number of HTML utilities, and standard objects to represent HTTP requests and responses.
Questions tagged [libwww-perl]
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Difference between Apache rules to block libwww-perl
I want to know the difference between these rules and which is most effective to block libwww-perl with the file .htaccess
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "libwww-perl" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot
or
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}…

Yasmina Saraya
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«HTTP::Message content must be bytes» error when trying to post
I have the following code:
...
sub setImage {
my $self=shift;
my $filename=shift;
unless(-r $filename) {
warn "File $filename not found";
return;
}
my $imgn=shift;
my $operation=&URI::Escape::uri_escape_utf8(
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ZyX
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LWP::Simple::get changes encoding
I suppose I am using LWP::Simple::get incorrectly, but I am at my wit's end as to how to correct it. My first try was a simple
perl -e 'use LWP::Simple; print get("http://localhost/wtf.txt");'
, but that did not work. wtf.txt contains a single…

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html2ps + ImageMagick + libwww-perl not working together
Summary:
I am using html2ps to convert an html document with inline images. (I have both ImageMagick and libwww-perl installed.) If the images are local, this works fine; however, when the images are given through a URL, I just see [IMAGE] instead…

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Why does HTTP::Message::decodable complain about "Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference"?
I'm getting a Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference error trying to call HTTP::Message::decodable() using Perl 5.10 / libwww installed on Debian Lenny OS using the aptitude package manager. I'm really stuck so would appreciate some help…

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Web Crawler issue in perl
I had built a web crawler in Perl.
I am using
HTML::ContentExtractor
LWP::UserAgent
HTML::LinkExtor
to extract text form webpages.
Reference link for sample code web cralwer perl
Issue:
The issue is that it does not get text from web pages…

Nagaraju
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Error when receiving post from libwww-perl to IIS / ASP.NET
I'm trying to recieve a post from a web service to a URL on IIS 7.5. It's like the request is being rejected before it even gets to .NET. I've tried it with an ASP.NET MVC action or a pure .ASPX file.
This is the request coming through:
2012-11-29…

Chris Barry
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Gettting Error 500 when trying Get from website using lwp::useragent
Someone help me with this using lwp::Useragent please
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 0);
$mech->get($url);
my $content=$mech->content;
but getting Error 500 when trying to get https://camelcamelcamel.com/

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perl Can't locate object method query_form via package LWP::UserAgent
I'm creating a script with thread so I had to rebuild perl (perl5.20) with threads support.
Since I have rebuild perl, I have an error :
Can't locate object method "query_form" via package "LWP::UserAgent"
I've tried to re-install LWP::UserAgent,…

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How to check whether libwww-perl is installed or not in my server
How to check whether libwww-perl is installed or not in my server.
And also tell me what is the use of libwwww-perl. How to remove this if we remove what are the things going to affect.
libwww-perl is connected with perl modules or lighttpd.

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