Is the listing you provided for the local HTTP subdirectory: 
/path/to/the/cgi/bin/cgi-bin/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/HTTP> ls -l
-r--r--r--    1 mhalunen user        19433 Dec  8  2004 Message.pm
-r--r--r--    1 mhalunen user         5030 Apr  7  2004 Request.pm
-r--r--r--    1 mhalunen user        11827 Dec 11  2004 Response.pm

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a complete one? The HTTP::* modules provided by libwww-perl indicates that there's more; in particular, HTTP::Headers is present, which is required by HTTP::Message, but is missing in your listing above - is it available elsewhere?. HTTP::Message also may require other modules, such as URI, HTTP::Headers::Util, Compress::Zlib, and others, depending on the context - are these available within the set of directories specified in your use lib statement?

In reply to Re: locally installed modules not interfacing by randyk
in thread locally installed modules not interfacing by mike hal

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