sub transport_message {
 my $self = shift;
 my $message_string = shift;
 my $peer = shift;

 my $headers = new HTTP::Headers;
 $headers->date(time);
 $headers->content_type('text/plain');
 $headers->server('Net::Distributed');

 my $request = new HTTP::Request (
  'POST',
  "http://" . $peer->address,
  $headers,
  $message_string
 );


 unless ($self->{UserAgent}) {
  $self->{UserAgent} = new LWP::UserAgent;
  $self->{UserAgent}->agent ("Net::Distributed::Transport/$VERSION");
  $self->{UserAgent}->from ($self->{email});
  $self->{UserAgent}->parse_head(0);
  $self->{UserAgent}->timeout($self->{send_timeout}); 
   # send_timeout normally 5 secs
 }
 my $ua = $self->{UserAgent};

 my $response = $ua->request($request); 

 if ($response->is_success) {
  return 1; # of course, there may be problems further down the line
 } else {
  $self->_debug("Got " . $response->status_line . " from " . $peer->address, 0);

  return 0;
 }
}