To elaborate on PodMaster's reply, change the second line of your script to something like this 

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( agent =>
'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/2
+0050223 Firefox/1.0.1' );

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The argument to the agent option determines the type of HTTP client that $ua will represent itself as. For the sake of illustration, I used the string corresponding to my version of Firefox. The exact version of Firefox is probably not important, but if you want to match it exactly to the one for your browser, or more generally, if you want to know how to best replicate what your Firefox browser is telling the server, get yourself the LiveHTTPHeaders extension for Firefox. This extension pops up a window showing exactly the conversation between your browser and the server, which you can then replicate with your script.

the lowliest monk

In reply to Re: Help with LWP::UserAgent server error 500 by tlm
in thread Help with LWP::UserAgent server error 500 by ezekiel

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