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Set a custom HTTP User-Agent in Perl with WWW::Mechanize
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| use WWW::Mechanize; | |
| my $initial_user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; de-de; HTC Desire HD 1.18.161.2 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1'; | |
| my @user_agents = ( | |
| 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13', | |
| 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7D11', | |
| 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5', | |
| ); | |
| # Set an initial custom header with the contructor | |
| my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( agent => $initial_user_agent ); | |
| # get a page and print current URI (WWW::Mechanize follows redirections) | |
| $mech->get( 'http://www.facebook.com' ); | |
| print sprintf( "User-Agent %s\n redirects to: %s\n\n", $initial_user_agent, $mech->uri() ); | |
| foreach my $http_user_agent (@user_agents) { | |
| # dynamically set custom HTTP User-agents | |
| $mech->add_header( 'User-agent' => $http_user_agent); | |
| $mech->get( 'http://www.facebook.com' ); | |
| print sprintf( "User-Agent %s\n redirects to: %s\n\n", $http_user_agent, $mech->uri() ); | |
| } | |
| # $ perl ./mechanize-user-agent.pl | |
| # User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; de-de; HTC Desire HD 1.18.161.2 Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1 | |
| # redirects to: http://m.facebook.com/?w2m&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr | |
| # | |
| # User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 | |
| # redirects to: http://www.facebook.com | |
| # | |
| # User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7D11 | |
| # redirects to: http://m.facebook.com/?w2m&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr | |
| # | |
| # User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5 | |
| # redirects to: http://m.facebook.com/?w2m&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr |
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