Question

I have the Perl & LWP book, but how do I set the user-agent string?

This is what I’ve got:

use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple; # Used to download files

my $u = URI->new($url);
my $response_u = LWP::UserAgent->new->get($u);
die "Error: ", $response_u->status_line unless $response_u->is_success;

Any suggestions, if I want to use LWP::UserAgent like I do here?

Answer 1

From the LWP cookbook:

  use LWP::UserAgent;
  $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  $ua->agent("$0/0.1 " . $ua->agent);
  # $ua->agent("Mozilla/8.0") # pretend we are very capable browser

  $req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => 'http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl';
  $req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');

  # send request
  $res = $ua->request($req);