my $qurl = 'legitmate url (tested -- fails for many)'; my $uasnd = new HTTP::Request ('GET', $qurl); $uasnd->header('Accept' => 'text/html'); my $res = $ua->request($uasnd); use Data::Dumper; print STDERR "RES: ".Dumper( $res )."\n"; my $code= $res->code; # RETURNS 500 my $content= $res->content; # NADA