in reply to Re^2: problem w/ LWP::UserAgent?
in thread problem w/ LWP::UserAgent?

Seems to me the most likely cause is that when upgrading his perl, he upgraded his entire webserver -- perhaps using something like XAMPP - and hasn't (re)tweaked the webserver runtime account to have network privileges.

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