hi i am writting a perl code to import contacts from my gmail account. i have used mechanize, the code works fine when run from the ternminal, but when put on a web server and run using a browser i am getting an error which says bad host name,.....the apache log files show that the mechnize agaent($mech) is not able to find the form, but as i said it works perfectly on terminal...i am really stupped could anyone help me.... the code is 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use WWW::Mechanize qw(!head);
use HTTP::Cookies;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
print header;
print start_html("email");
$user=param("user");
$pass=param("password");
###go to login page and login.
#$url = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&pas
+sive=true&rm=false&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3
+Fnsr%3D1%26ui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=1k96igf4806cy&ltmpl=default&ltmplca
+che=2";
$url="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=mail";
$mech = WWW::Mechanize->new() or die "cannot create a new agent";
$mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
$mech->get($url) or die 'cannot get';
print $mech->content();
$mech->form_number(1);
die "not logging in",$mech->response->status_line unless $mech->succes
+s;
$mech->field(Email => 'xxxxxxx');
$mech->field(Passwd => 'yyyyyy');
$mech->submit();
#Go to the next link, now that we are logged in.
$url = 'http://mail.google.com/mail/contacts/data/export?exportType=AL
+L&groupToExport=&out=Google_CSV';
$mech->get($url)||die "din get";
print $mech->content();

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