LWP missing objects

gw1500se has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to write a script that uses LWP (perl 10.5.0) with Cygwin. I am trying some of the simple examples scattered around but cannot get anything to work except, seemingly:

use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple;

$req=LWP::Request->new(GET=>"www.mysite.com");
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That seems to return a hash but when I use '$req->is_success', or '$req->content' or '$req->status_line' on I get errors saying can't locate the object method. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? TIA.

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Re: LWP missing objects by jettero (Monsignor) on Aug 18, 2008 at 22:46 UTC
That's because there is no LWP::Request. I believe you're looking for HTTP::Request. -Paul	[reply]
Re^2: LWP missing objects by gw1500se (Beadle) on Aug 19, 2008 at 23:05 UTC
Yep. I got all discombobulated between HTTP, LWP etc. and the various returned hashes. I got it now. Thanks to both of you.	[reply]
Re: LWP missing objects by olus (Curate) on Aug 18, 2008 at 23:03 UTC
In my case it seems to be returning a scalar `Can't locate object method "new" via package "LWP::Request" (perhaps you forgot to load "LWP::Request"?) at lwp.pl line 4.` Try the examples on lwp docs.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: LWP missing objects by gw1500se (Beadle) on Aug 19, 2008 at 22:42 UTC
I think that is it. I did not realize they were all separate packages.	[reply]