Actually, I've tried it both with and without the firewall in place. Sometimes the firewall is nice because it'll dump the denials to log confirming it's not useing the right localaddr/localport.

I'm on Perl 5.005_3. Can't get to that machine at the moment to grep the LWP version. I'm sure I'll figure it out with some more tinkering. would require LWP vs. use LWP make a difference in this?