Hi all, this code on my computer is not working 
  use LWP::UserAgent;
 use HTTP::Headers;

my $link = "ftp://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/current_releas
+e/knowledgebase/complete/reldate.txt";

simple_get($link);

sub simple_get {
        my $url = shift;

        use HTTP::Request;
        use LWP::UserAgent;
        my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
        my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
        my $response = $ua->request($request);
        my $error = 1 unless ($response->is_success);

        if ($error){
                print "There is an error\n";
        }else{
                print "OK!\n";
        }
}

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It returns: There is an error Even if I know that the link is correct, I told to the mantainers of Uniprot.org but they said that for them it's fine. So I was thinking that maybe a problem in my DNS can give this 404 error that I get. Is there a way to change the DNS to access a link using some PERL native functions?

Thank you all

Angelo

In reply to Problem with HEAD.. but I think can be related with DNS by angeloulivieri

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