Hi, I'm a law student trying to learn Perl. Hilarious, huh?

Anyway, I'm trying to write a script to automate looking up the status of court cases online at https://www.dccourts.gov/cco/maincase.jsf. But when I run my code, it just times out and I'm not sure why. The error I get is "error: 500 SSL read timeout: at ./minimaltestcase.pl line 34"

I thought maybe I had done my form pairs improperly, but it doesn't seem like that should be the cause of this problem since with other websites it seems like I can use the POST method even with BS values like 'foo' => 'bar'. I still get something back. If I try to POST to cnn.com or paypal.com, with this script, I do get HTML printed to the console.

Anyway, here's a stripped down version of the script. If anybody can point out an error or point me in a different direction, I would much appreciate it. I did try to use LWP::Debug, but it didn't output anything.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;



my $url = 'https://www.dccourts.gov/cco/maincase.jsf';
#my $url = 'https://www.paypal.com/';

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $response = $browser->post($url, 
  [ 'appData%3Asearchform' => 'appData%3Asearchform',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3AsearchPanelCollapsedState' => 'false',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3AlastName' => '',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3AcompanyName' => '',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3AfirstName' => '',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3Aj_id_id14pc4' => '2011',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3AselectCaseType' => 'CF2',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3Aj_id_id18pc4' => '003817',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3AnameAttributesPanelCollapsed
+State' => 'true',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3AsubmitSearch.x' => '25',
  'appData%3Asearchform%3Ajspsearchpage%3AsubmitSearch.y' => '26',
  'javax.faces.ViewState' => 'j_id1%3Aj_id2',
  ]
);

#my $response = $browser->post($url, 
#  [ 'foo' => 'bar',
#  ]
#);

die "$url error: ", $response->status_line unless $response->is_succes
+s;

print $response->content;

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