lwp-request problem

samnodes has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using lwp-request in Active Perl to GET and then process web pages on XP. I have used this before with no problem. I call open (INFILE,"lwp-request GET ${url} |") to set up a pipe which I then process with while (<INFILE>). If I run the perl script from a command window then all is well. However, if I run it via cgi-bin, lwp-request doesn't seem to pick up the web page, just a short page which seems to contain Javascript routines. Am I missing something obvious here? $url = "http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive/0,,1284265,00.html" in this case.

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Re: lwp-request problem by Anonymous Monk on Sep 18, 2006 at 06:05 UTC
Might be a permission problem. Try LWP::Simple	[reply]
Re^2: lwp-request problem by samnodes (Initiate) on Sep 18, 2006 at 21:01 UTC
use LWP::simple; and get() works fine! thanks. But why does it work?	[reply]
Re: lwp-request problem by derby (Abbot) on Sep 18, 2006 at 12:37 UTC
Maybe not so much a permission problem but a path problem. What does this call look like from the command line: `GET 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive'` Is that the javascript you're talking about? -derby	[reply] [d/l]