in reply to Can't get WWW::Mechanize get to work??

Does your network require a proxy setting?

If your default browser is internet explorer, take a look at (rough translation from german language): Extras, Internet Options, Connections. If you have any VPN- or Dial-out connections, check them for Proxy settings. Also check in "LAN Settings" if you have any "automatic proxy settings".

You can also check if you can connect to google via your telnet client (manual HTTP connection). Open cmd.exe and connect to google: 

telnet www.google.com 80

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Then, type 
GET /

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(you might not see anything) and press Enter twice. Depending on your physical location, you should see something similar to 
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.at/
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=47392c3f5731cea0:FF=0:TM=1335443806:LM=1335443806:
+S=cuyFu3S3rkcsl_Do; expires=Sat, 26-Apr-2014 12:36:46 GMT; path=/; do
+main=.google.com
Set-Cookie: NID=59=UfWRVat2ENDZmUrEV_XafYqLpl5-5DpsARihwnhqliVswI9X2DV
+ABcF8Cmcx2q6TCQp7KQIPIqVx9iZPH3XRm3g-jtRz6fFry__EOSQKY2XNd7QtoZPopMjT
+OR5HmTBU; expires=Fri, 26-Oct-2012 12:36:46 GMT; path=/; domain=.goog
+le.com; HttpOnly
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/a
+ccounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:36:46 GMT
Server: gws
Content-Length: 218
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset
+=utf-8">
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.at/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

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If you see something completly different that looks like a message from your local proxy, you will have to add the correct proxy settings to your script. I never had to do this, but from a quick glance into the documentation, WWW::Mechanize seems to use/be based on LWP::UserAgent, so these settings should do the trick.

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