Why can't I fetch wikipedia pages with LWP::Simple?

Question

I\'m trying to fetch Wikipedia pages using LWP::Simple, but they\'re not coming back. This code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

print get(\"ht         


        

Answer 1

Because Wikipedia is blocking the HTTP user-agent string used by LWP::Simple.

You will get a "403 Forbidden"-response if you try using it.

Try the LWP::UserAgent module to work around this, setting the agent-attribute.