Re: LWP ends up with unreadable characters

[email protected] writes:

> i'm trying to use LWP on:
> 
> 	http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/spanish/a_1;_ylt=
> 	AoFfUtrOQo3d1vl10ohvPPb2s8sF
> 
> when i do :
> 
>        $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
>        $res1 = $ua->get($url,%header);
>        my $page = $res1->content;
> 
> '$page' ends up with unreadable characters. the code works fine for
> most sites. also, if i fetch the page with 'lynx' i get readable stuff,
> and a browser's 'view source' function on the page gets a normal
> result.  
> 
> ideas?

Try to provide a complete program that we can run to reproduce your
problem.  I certainly get text out when I try to access your URL with
this program:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $res = $ua->get('http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/spanish/a_1;_ylt=AoFfUtrOQo3d1vl10ohvPPb2s8sF');
my $page = $res->content;

print $page;
__END__

Perhaps you have something interesting in %header that you don't tell us about?

Regards,
Gisle