LWP::Useragent request

[ldsdates]

Has anyone gotten a useragent request to work? My code shown below allows me to make a web request and puts the response in a variable. It works elsewhere, but when I attempt to use it here it never completes the get($request)

use LWP::Simple qw($ua get);
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $request = $_[0];
$ua->timeout(30);
$response = get($request);

[misson]

That's not quite enough to test. Is the posted fragment part of a function, or is it top-level code? Are you sure $_[0] holds a URL?

[ldsdates]

This is the whole thing, wrapped in a sub. - you are right $_[0] is the url you are attempting to get.

## Usage: $html=&getpage("http://yourwebsite.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi");
sub getpage {
use LWP::Simple qw($ua get);
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $request = $_[0];
$ua->timeout(30);
$response = get($request);
return "$response";
}