Hi monks,
I have discovered a strange bug. I need to do a secure HTTP transaction (HTTPS) with the LWP::UserAgent. This is the code (https://www.guy.com is just an example): 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
{
    ##The Perl Module that does the work
    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent();

    ##The URL
    my $url = "https://www.guy.com/";

    ##Creating the request
    my $req = new HTTP::Request ('GET',$url);

    ##Getting the HTML page
    my $res = $ua->request($req);

    ##Printing the HTML page
    print $res->content."\n";
}

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When I run this from the command line (./demo_https) it works (doesn't fetch anything, but doesn't crash). However, when I run it using the "perl command" (perl demo_https), I get that most hated of all errors: "Segmentation fault". I also get this error when using a private Perl path, and not /usr/bin/perl.
I have to admit that I work on a few different servers, and I only get this error on one of them, so a lot of you guys might not be able to reconstruct the bug. Also, I am using a relatively old version of LWP::UserAgent (because its what the customers have).
Has anyone seen this type of error before, and has any idea what I can do about it?
Thanks,
Guy (mrguy123)

Update: In answer to some of the (very useful) replies, using newer and better tools (like WWW::Mechanize) would be the ideal suggestion, but unfortunately this also has to work for customers that don't have these tools.

In reply to HTTPS transactions with LWP::UserAgent by mrguy123

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