Question

I am having a problem using WWW::Mechanize. It seems no matter what website I try accessing, my script just sits there in the command prompt until it times out. The only things that come to mind that might be relevant are the following:

• I have IE7, chrome, and FF installed. FF was my default browser but I recently switched that to chrome.
• I seem to be able to access websites with port 8080 just fine.
• I recently experimented with the cookie jar but stopped using it because, honestly, I’m not sure how it works. This may have instantiated a change.

Here is an example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $url = 'http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/learn/';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$mech->get( $url );

print $mech->content;

Answer 1

The code seems to work, so it must be a firewall/proxy issue. You can try setting a proxy:

   $mech->proxy(['http', 'ftp'], 'http://your-proxy:8080/');