Running a cgi script like the following from the command line works pretty fine.
Running the same script from within the browser result in an error message like: http://192.168.0.5/cgi-bin/lwp.cgi > 500 Can't connect to search.cpan.org:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp') The sample script: ------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI qw(:standard); print header(); # Create a user agent object use LWP::UserAgent; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 "); # Create a request my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://search.cpan.org/search'); $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $req->content('query=libwww-perl&mode=dist'); # Pass request to the user agent and get a response back my $res = $ua->request($req); # Check the outcome of the response if ($res->is_success) { print $res->content; } else { print $res->status_line, "\n"; } ------------------------------ System versions are: Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.5.10 on Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 + Apache/1.3.29 Many thanks for help. Kind regards, Dirk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/