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in reply to LWP and Javascript

you mention Javascript twice in your post and then, towards the end of your post, you talk about Java... I'm not sure which language you have in mind...it's important to realize that they have almost nothing in common (except the first 4 letters of their name :) )
I'm going to assume that it was Javascript you had in mind...well, i took the block of code you posted and ran it against a secure URL , which also contained a lot of Javascript... and the script ran just fine...
it's highly unlikely that Javascript is the culprit here (since it's a client-side scripting language and not a server-side and does not get executed when you get the source code using LWP)
it might be that the website you're posting to was down at that time...