I'm not able to replicate your problem here. The URL you said was returning no content is working just fine; it is a little slow, however. Perhaps the problem is in the calling code; how is it dealing with the content? How have you determined it has no content?

In addition, the parens on your subroutine declaration are wrong, sub retrieve_url () {...} declares retrieve_url as taking no arguments; the parens there are a prototype (see perlsub). You should be using sub retrieve_url { ... }. You probably haven't seen any errors from this because the declaration isn't seen soon enough, but you should be seeing warnings about that (you are using warnings, right?).

In reply to Re: Retrieving HTML with LWP::UserAgent by Somni
in thread Retrieviing HTML with LWP::UserAgent by Heidegger

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