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

Also see the Mediawiki related CPAN modules - these are designed to hit Mediawiki sites (of which wikipedia is one) and might give you more bells and whistles than simple LWP.

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=Mediawiki&mode=dist