I am using the following script, but it failed with "500 read failed" with the long URL get request: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI::URL;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->requests_redirectable ( ['GET', 'HEAD', 'POST'] );
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new; 
$ua->cookie_jar ($cookie_jar);
$ua->agent ("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"); # p
+retends to be IE6
my $url = url 'https://advertise.latimes.com/';
my $res = $ua->get($url);
print $res->is_success,"\n";
#$url = url 'https://advertise.latimes.com/portal/page/portal/LA%20Tim
+es';
$url = url 'https://advertise.latimes.com/portal/event/portal/LA%20Tim
+es?_pageid=273,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&_portlet_ref=273_150732_2
+73_1_1&_eventName_register=';
$res = $ua->get($url);
print $res->is_success,"\n";
print $res->content,"\n";

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Please note that it can successfully access the following URLs:
1. https://advertise.latimes.com;
2. https://advertise.latimes.com/portal/page/portal/LA%20Times;
But it can't handle this URL (which is doing urlrewrite in Portal):
https://advertise.latimes.com/portal/event/portal/LA%20Times?_pageid=273,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&_portlet_ref=273_150732_273_1_1&_eventName_register=

I can access this URL using browser without any problem, so what the problem with LWP? Can someone try it on your side and let me know what's your results? I am wondering if I should use Perl 5.6 instead of 5.8?

Edit: g0n - replaced pre tags with code tags

In reply to LWP and Oracle Portal HTTPS site problem by Anonymous Monk

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