Crashing WWW:Mech test script if page not found

[talexb]

After writing my latest meditation I went back to searching for some answers and eventually found out that running my test script on Ubuntu was working fine, as I thought it was, but running the same test script on Solaris (targeting the same web server, of course) was breaking. Assuming that there aren't any problems with the different platforms, I had a look at the versions of the modules that might have something to do with the difference.

Ubuntu	Solaris
abeamish@foobar:~/dev$ dpkg -l | grep www ii libwww-perl 5.808-1 WWW client/server library for Perl (aka LWP) ii libwww-mechanize-perl 1.34-1 Automate interaction with websites	-bash-3.00$ dpkg -l | grep www ii libwww-perl 5.821-1 WWW client/server library for Perl (aka LWP) ii perl-www-mechanize 1.52-0 Perl module for handy web browsing in a Perl object

So then I went through the change deltas for WWW::Mech and LWP but didn't find anything that suggested that the strategy for GETting has changed. The error I'm getting is

Error GETing https://foo.bar/page.html: Not Found at 05_login.t line 3
+09

I don't want a 404 error to be a fatal error. If anyone can shed some light on this problem, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Update Well, I've got things under control for now by kludging together a SKIP block that checks $^O to see if we're running on Solaris .. except that SKIP seems to do a next and breaks out of the loop I'm currently in, and I don't want to do that. More work is required.

Update 2 Cool -- the anonymous monk (three of them, in fact) have wised me up to the autocheck argument. I'll try this out on Monday.

[Anonymous Monk]

Turn off autocheck

[Anonymous Monk]

1.49_01     Sat Sep 27 23:50:04 CDT 2008
========================================
[THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
The autocheck argument to the constructor is now ON by default,
unless WWW::Mechanize is being subclassed.  There are so many new
programmers whose ->get() calls fail unchecked that I'm now putting
on the seat belts for them.

[Anonymous Monk]

warn/die are not crash

[tomfahle]

As mentioned by others before, turn off autocheck.

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

my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new(
              stack_depth => 0,   # Turn off memory consuming history 
              timeout     => 180, # Set timeout in seconds
              autocheck   => 0,   # Turn off autocheck, check errors m
+anually
                        );

$browser->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );

my $url = 'https://foo.bar/page.html';

$browser->get($url);
if ( $browser->success( ) )  {
    print "Okay: $url. ", $browser->response->status_line(), "\n";
}
else {
    print "Error: $url. Reason: ", $browser->response->status_line(), 
+"\n";
}

Run the script with autocheck turned on (1) to reproduce your errormessage.

Hope this helps.
Thomas