get binary instead of text

Posted on 2008-05-27 13:55:42-07 by tmellnik

I have a simple script to download a set of text files using www-mechanize get().

On an Win NT 4 machine, perl 5.8.8, www-mechanize 1.2, the download works.

On a Win Server 2003 machine, perl 5.8.8., www-mechanize 1.34 the files downloaded are all binary characters. I can paste URL into a browser on this machine & see the text.

Would appreciate advice or hints about how to get text. Thanks.

Ted Mellnik

tmellnik@charlotteobserver.com

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Posted on 2008-05-27 14:46:01-07 by tmellnik in response to 7944

Re: get binary instead of text

On the Win Server 2003 box, the get() works in www-mechanize 0.72, but not in www-mechanize 1.32

Ted

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Posted on 2008-07-13 22:38:19-07 by murthy64 in response to 7945

Re: get binary instead of text

I have the same issue. On Windows XP with Active Perl everything works great. As soon as I moved the code to a BSD Unix things came crumbling down. For instance, the entire page of www.fedex.com was returned as a binary when done like this

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new (); $mech->get("http://www.fedex.com"); print $mech->response->content;

Can anyone please help me figure this out? Thanks Murthy

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Posted on 2008-07-15 13:34:50-07 by murthy64 in response to 8290

Re: get binary instead of text

The problem was fixed by using

$mech->content

instead of

$mech->response->content

where

$mech = WWW::Mechanize->new

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Posted on 2008-07-15 15:36:27-07 by murthy64 in response to 8310

Re: get binary instead of text

I forgot to offer a BIG THANKS to the developers of this great package. Best Regards Murthy

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