I'm trying to build a little web-crawler using LWP, but the get method from LWP::Simple just won't work. I've written this little test program to try and work it out, but it's not helping. 
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $url = "http://kompas.com/kompas-cetak/0505/09/metro/index.htm";
my $conts = get $url or die "I canna do it Cap'n!\n";
print $conts;

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It compiles and runs like this and just dies with the message with no errors about the package. The method just returns nothing. I'm running ActivePerl on Windows, which I think is contributing to the problem, but I can't figure out how. The Makefile.pl for LWP seemed to run fine. Can you see what's going wrong?

edit After finding the guide to ppm and trying to install the package that way I find that I get an error from ppm like this: 
ppm> install LWP
Error: No valid repositories
Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp'
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Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp'
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What's going on here?

"We shall peck them to death tomorrow, my dear."

In reply to Problems with LWP by smocc

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