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

Check your SELinux settings.

SELINUX enabled systems will not allow an outgoing connection from a web agent (httpd).

This page can tell you more about SELinux and HTTPD settings: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/SelinuxBooleans

Enable outbound web connections from Apache in a Perl script:

# setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on