I'm having a facebook discussion with a friend from high school who claimed that the word 'enemy' appeared on a webpage, and I wanted to prove that he was making it up and thought to do so with perl. I seem to be unable to get the content of the page and thought I'd ask for a work-around here:

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use feature 'say';
  use LWP::Simple;
  
  my $url = 'https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/';
  my $content = get $url;
  die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;
  if($content =~ m/enemy/i) {
    say "enemy found";
  } else   
    say $content;
  }

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Output:

Couldn't get https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/  at rm1.pl line 8.

I suspect that my problem is that https is different than http, but I see no work-around on cpan for LWP::Simple. Am I using the right tool? If so, how do I use it correctly? Thanks for your comment.

In reply to getting content of an https website by Aldebaran

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