This is what I get: 
C:\Documents and Settings\dorian>perl
print $];
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp (fatalsToBrowser);
require LWP::UserAgent;

print header;

 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

 my $url = 'http://google.com';

 my $response = $ua->get($url);

 if ($response->is_success) {
     print $response->decoded_content;  # or whatever
 }
 else {
     die "failed: $url : ", $response->status_line;
 }
^Z
5.016003Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1


Software error:


failed: http://google.com : 500 Status read failed: A non-blocking socket o
peration could not be completed immediately. at - line 18.




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Thu May 30 13:43:04 2013 -: failed: http://google.com : 500 Status read failed
: A non-blocking socket operation could not be completed immediately. at - line
18.

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

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