| Digital_Pioneer | Hi. I'm using WWW::Mechanize, and I need to set the user agent to one not listed among the known ones. |
| alester | Then you'll have to call the underlying LWP::UserAgent method |
| dkr | another spammer? |
| alester | which I don't recall right off. |
| action | dkr cackles. |
| dkr | cackles. |
| cfedde | If the local paper printed a story about you and your buddies going out for a drink. |
| alester | Digital_Pioneer: If it's something I should add to the list, mail it to me. |
| somian | Howdy alester, cfedde. http://use.perl.org/~somian/journal/32813 |
| Digital_Pioneer | alester: Can I use that seamlessly with WWW::Mech? |
| somian | What I've been up to. |
| Caelum | Digital_Pioneer: just put agent => "whateveR" in the call to WWW::Mechanize->new |
| alester | Mech is a superclass of Mech |
| jjore | Ok, so the newspaper is a different kind of media. |
| alester | I mean Mech is a superclass of LWP::UserAgent |
| Digital_Pioneer | Caelum: And that won't error on 'unknown agent' or whatever? |
| alester | somian: What about it? |
| somian | My 30 seconds are up. Have a good one! |
| alester | Digital_Pioneer: Why don't you try it? |
| jjore | See, I figure HR ought to have the ethical cojones to stay out of things people aren't in the habit of thinking of as "play" spaces. |
| Digital_Pioneer | Cool, it works. :) |
| Caelum | Digital_Pioneer: seems to work here |
| cfedde | jjore: um... OK |
| Digital_Pioneer | Caelum: Thanks! :) |
| jjore | But you're not really HR, are you? |
| theblue | I think he is. |
| jjore | Zowie. |
| cfedde | jjore: no. but I support them and I do check what backgorund I can when I'm hireing. |
| theblue | cfedde: Care to reveal yourself? In other words, you're the boss? |
| cfedde | I'm not the boss. I'm just a middle tier manager that used to be a geek. |
| theblue | oh. Now I know you're lying. |
| jjore | So for you, how's that work when *other* people have blogs with unprotected posts which mention the person you're investigating? |
| cfedde | now all I do is protect geeks from higher up managers. |
| theblue | You still are a geek, you;re in #perl at midnight EST? |
| jjore | Do you have ethical boundaries? What are they? |
| pragma_ | Are you sure? |
| Kiladen | so does anyone want to make money installing the myspace "spam" script for me yes or no, I'll pay $300 |
| cfedde | jjore: I figure reading through a google footprint is fair. |