I can view the page without problems in Firefox.

Running the Perl code I get a slightly different error: 

Error GETing https://contests.arrl.org/: Can't connect to contests.arr
+l.org:443 (certificate verify failed) at ./1.pl line 13.

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Similarly, wget complains: 

$ wget -O- https://contests.arrl.org/
--2024-09-09 23:28:00--  https://contests.arrl.org/
Resolving contests.arrl.org (contests.arrl.org)... 44.212.212.223
Connecting to contests.arrl.org (contests.arrl.org)|44.212.212.223|:44
+3... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify contests.arrl.org's certificate, issued by ‘CN=Go
+ Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2,OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/
+repository/,O=GoDaddy.com\\, Inc.,L=Scottsdale,ST=Arizona,C=US’:
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to contests.arrl.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificat
+e'.

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and so does curl: 

$ curl  https://contests.arrl.org/
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certifi
+cate
More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could
+ not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situatio
+n and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

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map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re: Mechanize - Bad File descriptor by choroba
in thread Mechanize - Bad File descriptor by Marshall

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