Notice that with LWP the redirect to pair.com fails with 500; but succeeds with wget. It looks for all the world like pair.com is rejecting LWP's useragent string? 

C:\test>perl -S -MDevel::VersionDump lwp-request -Ed http://cpan.straw
+berryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Perl version: v5.18.4 on MSWin32 (C:\Perl5.18\perl\bin\perl.exe)
Carp               -   1.3301
Config             - 5.018004
Config_git.pl      -  Unknown
Config_heavy.pl    -  Unknown
Devel::VersionDump -     0.02
DynaLoader         -     1.18
Encode             -     2.62
Encode::Alias      -     2.18
Encode::Byte       -     2.04
Encode::Config     -     2.05
Encode::Encoding   -     2.07
Encode::Locale     -     1.03
Exporter           -     5.70
Exporter::Heavy    -     5.70
File::Basename     -     2.84
Getopt::Long       -     2.42
HTTP::Date         -     6.02
HTTP::Status       -     6.03
List::Util         -     1.41
Scalar::Util       -     1.41
Time::Local        -   1.2300
URI                -     1.64
URI::Escape        -     3.31
URI::Heuristic     -     4.20
Win32::API         -     0.79
Win32::API::Struct -     0.65
Win32::API::Type   -     0.69
XSLoader           -     0.16
base               -     2.18
bytes              -     1.04
constant           -     1.27
overload           -     1.22
overloading        -     0.02
strict             -     1.07
vars               -     1.03
warnings           -     1.18
warnings::register -     1.02
GET http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
User-Agent: lwp-request/6.03 libwww-perl/6.08

302 Found
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:30:00 GMT
Location: http://cpan.pair.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 228
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Client-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:30:22 GMT
Client-Peer: 69.163.152.144:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Title: 302 Found

GET http://cpan.pair.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
User-Agent: lwp-request/6.03 libwww-perl/6.08

500 Can't connect to cpan.pair.com:80
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:30:22 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response

C:\test>wget http://cpan.pair.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
--2014-12-31 10:31:47--  http://cpan.pair.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Resolving cpan.pair.com... 66.39.76.93
Connecting to cpan.pair.com|66.39.76.93|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 228720 (223K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `01mailrc.txt.gz'

100%[=====================>] 228,720      240K/s   in 0.9s

2014-12-31 10:31:49 (240 KB/s) - `01mailrc.txt.gz' saved [228720/22872
+0]


C:\test>

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