Hi Sean,

On Saturday 23 Apr 2011 02:59:12 Sean Murphy wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> I have a script that goes to google. Performs a search. 

Google does not allow you to do that using WWW-Mechanize and LWP-UserAgent 
(legally). You should use their web-search API and:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Google-Search/

> I have a regular
> expression that gets all the links. 

You shouldn't parse HTML with regular expressions:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way.html

> The first link in the array I return
> is ment to open the next page. But it keeps failing with an error stating
> it is illegal page. When I try and use lwp, it says you cannot use an
> absolute link. But the link looks fine to myself.
> 
> Below is the code, any help on resolving this issue would be great. The
> goal of the script is to input a movie name. find the details of the movie
> from imbd.com. Then save it as a text file. Eventually this Information
> will be turned into a web page.
> 

Please re-implement the code with the Google Search API, and peace will come 
upon the land.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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