This one had me up all night *yawn*

I have a home intranet, my gateway is 192.168.1.1 and it is using the squid proxy program. I am simply trying to write a little LWP script on 192.168.1.3 that grabs a web page through the proxy. Here's the code:

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->proxy('http', 'http://192.168.1.1:8080/');

my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => 'http://www.google.com';
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('match=www&errors=0');

my $res = $ua->request($req);

$res->is_success ? print $res->content : print $res->error_as_HTML;
[download]

The only output I get from ANY web page is a 411 - Length Required error.

Sounds like my proxy is not right - however, squid offers an executable called 'client' for the purposes of testing the proxy (BTW, I am typing this on 192.168.1.3 - Netscape uses the proxy just fine). So when I issue:

/usr/local/squid/bin/client -h 192.168.1.1 -p 8080 http://www.google.c
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[download]

I get the web page content as expected.

Does anybody have a idea why UserAgent doesn't like my proxy? (and if this a stricly a squid issue then I do apologize)

Thanks,
Jeff