Runs fine for me on my Linux server. I did note that it doesn't have a test file in the install package and that it requires HTML::TableExtract. Might want to make sure that you installed that. Using CPAN or better yet CPANPLUS to install catches stuff like that if that's the problem. (Wouldn't generate that error, though. ) Perhaps it's a connectivity issue?

(ADDED:) Some hardware/software details might help track this down.

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