in reply to LWP error 500

I suspect that you are behind firewall or proxy, this is network, but not LWP::UserAgent problem.
You may want to try the proxy object method: 
...
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

# your proxy ip address instead if '10.0.0.1':
$ua->proxy('http', 'http://10.0.0.1:8080');
...

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Re^2: LWP error 500
by gargle (Chaplain) on Sep 01, 2005 at 05:33 UTC

    Hi,

    If your proxy asks you for a userid & password you should do the following:

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;

$ua->agent("mYpErLsCrIpT.pl/3.0");
$ua->env_proxy;
$ua->proxy(http=>'http://proxy.pxpost:8080');

my $req = new HTTP::Request "GET" => "http://www.slashdot.org";

$req->proxy_authorization_basic('gargle','ImNoTgOnNaTeLl');

print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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      I prefer setting up the proxy information in the system environment or by modifying %ENV during the script. This provides maximum compatibility for modules like Crypt::SSLeay which would be required for https access but don't pick up the LWP proxy info.
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