hmmm...sounds like you have a firewall that does masquerading. If you have an actual http/ftp proxy, you might want to try this out. 
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

if ($#ARGV != 0) {
        print STDERR "Usage: $0 \"URL to fetch\"\n";
        exit;
}

my $agent = new LWP::UserAgent;

$agent->proxy(['http','ftp'],'http://192.168.1.1:8080');

my $req = GET($ARGV[0]);

my $res = $agent->request($req);

if ($res->is_success) {
        print $res->content;
}
else {
        print $res->status_line,"\n";
}

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This is a little script I wrote that does a simple get. I'm behind a firewall as well. LWP::Simple might have a proxy option, but I had this code handy. This way you won't have to look up the IP of every host you want to connect to.

/\/\averick

In reply to RE: RE: RE: LWP::Simple get function... by maverick
in thread LWP::Simple get function... by Anonymous Monk

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