Re: WWW::Mechanize and connection errors

[saberworks]

Other than the goto, what's ugly about it? That's a pretty standard way to test for failure. Mechanize is based on LWP, which provides methods to check for errors (including connection errors). Mechanize has wrapper methods for these as well -- check success(). I don't think that suite of modules ever dies on connection error. You can just:

my $response = $mech->get($url);

if($response->is_success()) {
  # do your stuff
}
else {
  # grab the status?
  warn "Unable to connect: " . $response->status_line();
}