Re: Requesting URLs containing German umlauts

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Pawel Krol wrote:

> There are websites, which contain special German characters in their
> URLs, for example: http://www.pbb-planungsbĂźro-bartsch.de (known as
> "umlauts").

Your problem is not with libwww, but with perl and its requirement to
say

     use utf8;

if you're using strings like

     my $url = q{http://www.pbb-planungsbĂźro-bartsch.de};

that contain utf8-encoded umlauts.

Try it.

-- 
-- Mike

Mike Schilli
[email protected]

>
> I have been unsuccessfully trying to retrieve contents of such
> websites using Perl (basically the purpose of it is to check, whether
> the URL is valid/invalid - maybe there's a simpler way to do it?).
>
> Here's a code snippet, which you can try out immediately:
>
> #!/opt/local/bin/perl
>
> use Data::Dumper;
> use LWP::UserAgent;
>
> my $url = q{http://www.pbb-planungsbĂźro-bartsch.de};
> # my $url = q{http://www.pbb-planungsb%C3%BCro-bartsch.de/};
>
> my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
> my $response = $ua->get($url);
>
> warn Dumper $response;
>
> __END__
>
> Well, it doesn't work. It gives me "500 Bad hostname" response
> regardless the URL being escaped or not.
>
> Question is... Is it possible to retrieve it at all? Are there any
> limitations? Workarounds?
>
> If you may kindly help me with resolving this problem, it would be
> very much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks for your help!
>
> Kind regards,
> PaweÂł KrĂłl.
>