Why can't I fetch www.google.com with Perl's LWP::Simple?

Question

I cant seem to get this peice of code to work:

    $self->{_current_page} = $href;
    my $response = $ua->get($href);
    my $responseCode = $response->         


        

Answer 1

Here's your problem:

my $content = LWP::Simple->get($href);

That passes the string "LWP::Simple" as the first argument to 'get'. You want:

my $content = LWP::Simple::get($href);