in reply to use statement seemingly ignored

I know nothing about the module or where it might usually live, but your results are consistent with there being a copy in the path specified by your use lib '/var/www/html/lib' ; line. I don't understand what you mean by "call a local version". Maybe the module version is different than you expect and there have been API changes?

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond