LWP::UserAgent post to post other than 80

[Zapanaz]

What I am trying to do is post to a cgi script.

The way I am doing it is this:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response =
$ua->post("http://1.2.3.4:7775/cgi-local/fm_account.cgi");

where the IP address is a real one and not 1.2.3.4

I know the URL is valid, I can hit it in a web browser, when the code
runs though it hangs.

There are a lot of things that could be going wrong, but one thing I
am not sure of is if I can specify serverort like that with
UserAgent. Should that work? That is, if I am using http, is it
going to assume port 80, and fail to work correctly if it isn't?

Thanks for any help.



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[Gregory Toomey]

What I am trying to do is post to a cgi script.

The way I am doing it is this:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response =
$ua->post("http://1.2.3.4:7775/cgi-local/fm_account.cgi");

where the IP address is a real one and not 1.2.3.4

I know the URL is valid, I can hit it in a web browser, when the code
runs though it hangs.

There are a lot of things that could be going wrong, but one thing I
am not sure of is if I can specify serverort like that with
UserAgent. Should that work? That is, if I am using http, is it
going to assume port 80, and fail to work correctly if it isn't?

Thanks for any help.

That should work. The problem could be with cookies, basic authentication,
or http_referrer.
For testing try wget with the URL.

gtoomey

 

[Tad McClellan]

I know the URL is valid, I can hit it in a web browser, when the code
runs though it hangs.

There are a lot of things that could be going wrong,

This may help to uncover some of those things:

Web Scraping Proxy

http://www.research.att.com/~hpk/wsp/

 

[John Bokma]

http://www.research.att.com/~hpk/wsp/

Thanks!

 

[Tad McClellan]

Thanks!

You're welcome.

I have dozens of web scrapers in use, I run the wsp often.