Re: How to 'solve' 401 HTTP-errors?

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>This was my first thought as well, and if that is the reason that I
>cannot request pages on these sites then I'll respect that.
>However, that still keeps me wondering how the server 'knows' that the
>page is NOT being requested by a Web browser, but rather by a robot...
>Does anybody have the answer to that question?

Have you tried setting your user_agent to exactely one of the well known
browsers ? It could be no more complicated than that.



Robin Berjon
Perl R&D - WebDesign
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.

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