LWP UserAgent can't 'get'

[cacheung]

Hi,

Apologies if I am not using the correct terminology.

The only url's that return a response when I LWP::UserAgent->get are local web pages.

I can't seem to 'get' external urls ... well, actually, get times-out.

Does any one know the reasons why this is happening?

Thanks in advance.
C

 

[vjcyrano]

You will have to paste the code.

 

[cacheung]

Hi,

Here's the code:

use LWP::UserAgent;
use Data::Dumper;

my $url = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com/';[/URL]
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
#$ua->timeout(300);
my $response;
$response = $ua->get($url);
#$response = $ua->get($url,
#        'User-Agent'    => 'Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)',
#        'Accept'        => 'image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, 
#image/pjpeg,
# image/png, */*',
#        'Accept-Charset'=> 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8',
#        'Accept-Language'=> 'en-US',
#);
die "Can't get $url == ", $response->status_line unless $response->is_success;

print Dumper $response;

I got this from an online tutorial ... I just wanted to see how this works. But apparently, it doesn't; not even when I up the timeout.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[vjcyrano]

The code is working fine for me.
I think it might hav something to do with ur network permissions or some other access problems.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Are you behind a firewall?
Does your web access go through a proxy or port mapper of some kind?
Check out your browser and see if it is setup to use a proxy.
Maybe you can use those settings in this script.


Trojan.