Hi, Jesper. It's happen because it should happen. You don't have the error because you are not handle error.
This happen because LWP has a timeout to wait the server response, after this timeout it will return a timeout error. In your case, you don't handle the error the only stuff you get is nothing. This URL "https://www.butler.edu/boa/default.aspx"; has two problems: 1 - The certificate authority is not trusted 2 - Never (i.e until timeout) response to the client If you are inside an intranet and you can access this site from your browser and you know ins't cache. Start handle with error, and show it to us. To avoid "certificate authority not trusted" you can use: BEGIN { $ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0; } Lab:~ danielmantovani$ wget "https://www.butler.edu/boa/default.aspx"; --2014-05-21 09:04:08-- https://www.butler.edu/boa/default.aspx Resolving www.butler.edu (www.butler.edu)... 159.242.130.240 Connecting to www.butler.edu (www.butler.edu)|159.242.130.240|:443... connected. ERROR: The certificate of ‘www.butler.edu’ is not trusted. ERROR: The certificate of ‘www.butler.edu’ hasn't got a known issuer. Lab:~ danielmantovani$ wget "https://www.butler.edu/boa/default.aspx"; --no-check-certificate --2014-05-21 09:04:39-- https://www.butler.edu/boa/default.aspx Resolving www.butler.edu (www.butler.edu)... 159.242.130.240 Connecting to www.butler.edu (www.butler.edu)|159.242.130.240|:443... connected. WARNING: The certificate of ‘www.butler.edu’ is not trusted. WARNING: The certificate of ‘www.butler.edu’ hasn't got a known issuer. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Success.) in headers. Retrying. On 21 May 2014 05:37, Jesper Persson <jesper.j.pers...@gmail.com> wrote: > --------------------- > use LWP::Simple; > $contents = get("https://www.butler.edu/boa/default.aspx";); > --------------------- > the perl process never returns. > > lwp version: "VERSION: 6.06" > > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 2) configuration: > Platform: > osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.2, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread > uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.18.2.1 #1 Tue Jan 7 22:32:35 2014 x64' > > Best Regards > Jesper Persson -- -dom -- Daniel de Oliveira Mantovani Business Analytic Specialist Perl Evangelist /Astrophysics hobbyist. +55 11 9 8538-9897 XOXO
