Greets Monks,
I'm fairly sure this isn't a perl problem per-se, but more of a configuration issue, so please don't flame me, as I'm sure one of you might have seen this before, or can tell me how to track it down
I'm running a little LWP script as cgi. It works when run from the command line, but dies when run as cgi with:
LWP result: {500 Can't connect to www.yahoo.com:80 (Bad hostname 'www.yahoo.com')} 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Debug qw(level); level('+');
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(10);
my $resp = $ua->get("http://www.yahoo.com/");
my $resultUsingLWP;
if($resp->is_success) {
$resultUsingLWP = $resp->content;
} else {
$resultUsingLWP = $resp->status_line;
}
print "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";
print "LWP result: {$resultUsingLWP}";
print "\n";

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I'm currently thinking it could be the paths which are:
root (command line): /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
apache (cgi): /usr/bin:/bin
however, as all other cgi rograms work fine, is there something in LWP that needs access to one of these directories?

In reply to LWP running as cgi by Anonymous Monk

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