in reply to Help with LWP::UserAgent server error 500

Now, when I run it I get at server error 500. Yet if I browse to the URL with Firefox I have no problem accessing the file??

What am I doing wrong?

You're talking to a broken server. If it works with Firefox, pretend to be firefox (send similar user agent and whatever else headers firefox sends). If that doesn't work, contact the webmaster.

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Re^2: Help with LWP::UserAgent server error 500
by inman (Curate) on Jun 29, 2005 at 16:44 UTC
    This isn't strictly true. LWP returns a status code of 500 itself to indicate that something didn't happen as planned on the client side. I have seen this issue most frequently when trying to access a site without setting the required proxy envrironment variable that I need in my company. 
    C:\>get http://perlmonks.com

C:\>500 Can't connect to www.perlmonks.com:80 (connect: Unknown error)

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    If the OP had missed a required proxy setting step then this would explain why they could access the file using a browser (presumably set up to use a proxy) but not the script.

    As a general point, it may be useful to use LWP::Debug qw(+); to trace the progress of an LWP transaction.

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