Good day Bros. So I am trying to port a script from windoze (that works fine there) to Linux. It runs a Google search and gets the results using LWP. When I run it, I immediately get a response with response code 500, response msg "read timeout," and a response header with key "client-warning" with value "Internal Response." This seems to have something to do with the request url I am sending because I get the same thing when I try to access the Perlmonks seekers page, i.e. this
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $request_url = 'http://perlmonks.com';
my $user_agent = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$user_agent->timeout(30);
my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $request_url);
my $response = $user_agent->request($request);

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generates the same error. Anyone know what's going on? I googled it and super searched it and the only other reports I saw with this error seem to involve LPW::UserAgent::Parallel, which I'm not using.

TIA...

Steve

UPDATE

Eureka! All along I had been running the code in ActiveState Komodo IDE 4.0. I finally took to stepping though the code with its debugger. I narrowed the problem down to line 313 of http.pm, which leads to a socket read on line 232 of Methods.pm, which calls sub sysread in line 382 of http.pm. If I stepped through the code slowly it would return a valid read on perlmonks.com, but if I set breakpoints on line 313 and on sub sysread and hit continue to go between them, I would get the error. Since there seemed to be an interaction between debugger actions and the error, I tried it from the command line and it worked. I guess there was some kind of bad interaction between Komodo and the perl interpreter.

Why this error occurs for perlmonks but not google is a mystery to me, but there you have it. I am going to put in a bug report on Komod and go my merry way.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

Steve

In reply to LWP error 500 read timeout "internal response" by cormanaz

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