Greets Monks,
I have a weird error for which I think there must be a simple explanation and fix, but I can't think of it.
I'm using the Geo::Coder::Google module, and it runs fine from the command line. I've cut it down to bare bones, but when I try to run it by accessing it via a browser, it reports:
Google Maps API returned error: 500 Can't connect to maps.google.com:80 (Bad hostname 'maps.google.com') at /var/www/cgi-bin/test.cgi line 9
(you'll need to enter your own API key to work it)
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use Geo::Coder::Google;
use CGI::Carp qw (fatalsToBrowser);
use Data::Dumper;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => "Geo::Coder::Google/0.01");
my $APIKEY='Google_key_for_my_server_ip_addr';

  my $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Google->new(apikey => $APIKEY ,ua => $ua)
+;
  my $location = $geocoder->geocode( location => 'Hollywood and Highla
+nd, Los Angeles, CA' );
print Dumper($location);

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Any ideas?

In reply to Geo::Coder::Google running as cgi by Anonymous Monk

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