my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
	$ua->timeout(20); # default is 180 seconds
    $ua->proxy( ['http', 'https'], $self->proxy ) if defined $self->proxy;
    my $response = $ua->request($request);
    
    my @results;
    
    if ($response->is_success) {
	my @arr=split(/\n/,$response->content); # much neater to use 'content' instead of 'as_string', we don't need to explicitly ignore header part of the http response any more.
	foreach my $el(@arr){         
	    $logger->warn("RESPONSE:  $el");
	    push (@results,$el);
	}
	
    }  else {
	warn ("\n\nProblems with the web server: ".
	      $response->status_line."\n\n");
    }