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Wolfgang -

This is great stuff ... it looks like this fixes the problem:

sub download()
{
    my $doc = shift @_;

    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize -> new( onerror => undef );
        
    return unless defined( $mech -> get( $doc ) );
    
    my $link = $mech -> find_link( url_regex => qr/\.pdf/ );
    return unless defined( $link );
    
    $link = $link -> url_abs;
    return unless ( $mech -> get ( $link ) );   # This is the GET oper
+ation which fails.

    my $name = $1 if $link =~/.+\/(.+\.pdf)/;    
    $mech -> save_content(  $name );
}
[download]

Thanks for your help! It made my day.

Cheers -

Pat

In reply to Re^2: Robust Handling of Broken Links in Mechanize? by pat_mc
in thread Robust Handling of Broken Links in Mechanize? by pat_mc

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