Is this a public API that any of us could play with or something closed or paid?

unfortunately it is an closed API (else I would have gladly posted the URL)...on another note I tried using the REST::Client instead of LWP::UserAgent and it worked that is it did not time out.

 sub getUserInfov {
  my($userId) = @_;
 my $userURI = 'https://xxx.com/api/m1/request/'. $partnerId. '/users/
+   
 print $userURI, "\n";
 
 my $client = REST::Client->new();
 $client->addHeader('Authorization', $authHeaders);
 $client->GET($userURI);
 # my $userContent = decode_json( $client->responseContent());
 # print Dumper($userContent);
 print 'Response: ' . $client->responseContent() . "\n";
 print 'Response status: ' . $client->responseCode() . "\n";
 foreach ( $client->responseHeaders() ) {
 print 'Header: ' . $_ . '=' . $client->responseHeader($_) . "\n";
 }
 # return ($userContent);
 

 
 #sleep (3);  
 
      }
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