500-Cannot determine protocol (rehash)

[William R. Ellis]

I am having configuration trouble on an NT2000 server.  Unfortunately, I do
not
have root access and those that do scratch their heads with this problem.  I
found
an old thread dealing with this problem but not enough info to help them
find
a solution.

Here is the problem snippet:

        require LWP;
        require LWP::UserAgent;

        #snip

        my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
        $ua->agent('bot name ' . $ua->agent);
        $ua->from  ('some email');
        $ua->timeout([180]);

        my $recForcast = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'A-URL');
        $recForcast->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
        $recForcast->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
        my $res_forcast = $ua->request($recForcast);

        $status = res_forcast->status_line;

        # status_line contains the error string shown:
        # 500 Can't connect to A-URL:80 (Cannot determine protocol)


Earlier threads refer to permission problem with etc/protocols
and IO::Socket::INET. (via Gisle)  The tech at the ISP can't
find any of these even though "use IO::Socket" doesn't fail.

Any ideas on an NT IIS server??

Thanks, Will