Why "alas"? I indicated you might have started noticing the problem because of a change in that value, but you don't demonstrate a lack of change.

What you did show is that you end up in LWP::Simple's _trivial_http_get method. (Usually, LWP calls end up LWP::UserAgent.) You could try adding debug statements to it. It could be that you end up in an endless redirection loop that LWP::UserAgent somehow avoids.

btw, no problems here:

>perl -le "print scalar grep {/http/i} keys %ENV"
0

>perl -le "use LWP (); print $LWP::VERSION"
5.64

>perl script.pl
Fetching 'http://www.google.com' with LWP::UserAgent
Retrieved 2311 bytes
Fetching 'http://www.google.com' with LWP::Simple
Retrieved 2311 bytes

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In reply to Re^3: Why would LWP::Simple::get stop working? by ikegami
in thread Why would LWP::Simple::get stop working? by dpmott

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