I have LWP::ConsoleLogger installed after much struggle to get it built within the restrictions of the client site. Sadly it has brought me no new enlightenment. My only though now is that Perl does not like my https_proxy being an http url. 

# curl https://google.com/
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset
+=utf-8">
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.se/?gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=IvWhWPTvI4b67gSTn7ygA
+g">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

# perl test.pl
GET https://google.com/

.-----------------+--------------------.
| Request Header  | Value              |
+-----------------+--------------------+
| Accept-Encoding | gzip               |
| User-Agent      | WWW-Mechanize/1.83 |
'-----------------+--------------------'

==> 500 Can't connect to google.com:443

.-----------------+-------------------------------.
| Response Header | Value                         |
+-----------------+-------------------------------+
| Client-Date     | Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:04:23 GMT |
| Client-Warning  | Internal response             |
| Content-Type    | text/plain                    |
'-----------------+-------------------------------'

.---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---.
| Content                                                             
+                                                                     
+   |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---+
| Can't connect to google.com:443                                     
+                                                                     
+   |
|                                                                     
+                                                                     
+   |
| Name or service not known at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2/LWP/Pro
+tocol/http.pm line 47, <DATA> line 1.                                
+   |
'---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---'

.---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---.
| Text                                                                
+                                                                     
+   |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---+
| Can't connect to google.com:443                                     
+                                                                     
+   |
|                                                                     
+                                                                     
+   |
| Name or service not known at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2/LWP/Pro
+tocol/http.pm line 47, <DATA> line 1.                                
+   |
'---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+---'

Error GETing https://google.com/: Can't connect to google.com:443 at t
+est.pl line 22.

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Thanks for taking the time. I have at least learned a bit more about the web tools available in Perl :)

Cheers,
R.

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In reply to Re^2: HTTPS returning 400 from Linux but 200 OK from Windows by Random_Walk
in thread HTTPS returning 400 from Linux but 200 OK from Windows by Random_Walk

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