Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported

ggerke has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Most wise and virile Monks, please show me the error of my ways.

I'm having what I think is a problem with modules (not) being installed but I'm not finding the one that's actually causing me grief. I've got the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$mech->get('http://www.perlmonks.com/');
print $mech->content;
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that generates the following:

Uncaught exception from user code: Error GETing http://www.perlmonks.com/: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported at ./test2.pl line 9. at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 2751.

WWW::Mechanize::_die('Error ', 'GET', 'ing ', 'URI::http=SCALAR(0x10dbc80)', ': ', 'Protocol scheme \'http\' is not supported') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 2738

WWW::Mechanize::die('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0xed47d0)', 'Error ', 'GET', 'ing ', 'URI::http=SCALAR(0x10dbc80)', ': ', 'Protocol scheme \'http\' is not supported') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 2385

WWW::Mechanize::_update_page('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0xed47d0)', 'HTTP::Request=HASH(0x10dbea0)', 'HTTP::Response=HASH(0x1162710)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 2217

WWW::Mechanize::request('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0xed47d0)', 'HTTP::Request=HASH(0x10dbea0)') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/LWP/UserAgent.pm line 410

LWP::UserAgent::get('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0xed47d0)', 'http://www.perlmonks.com/') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 407

WWW::Mechanize::get('WWW::Mechanize=HASH(0xed47d0)', 'http://www.perlmonks.com/') called at ./test2.pl line 9

I'm "blessed" with using at Perl 5.8.8 on a RHEL 5.8 server and getting up to current isn't a healthy option at this time. As far as WWW::Mechanize I've got the following on the machine:

$ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jul 23 12:56 Mechanize
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 79472 Feb  2 16:38 Mechanize.pm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jul 23 12:47 RobotRules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11155 Feb 18 06:05 RobotRules.pm
$ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/LWP/Protocol/http.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 13822 Feb 11 08:02 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
+.8/LWP/Protocol/http.pm
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9800)
Enter 'h' for help.
                                                            cpan[1]>  
+install WWW::Mechanize
WWW::Mechanize is up to date (1.72).

cpan[2]> install LWP::UserAgent
LWP::UserAgent is up to date (6.04).

cpan[3]> install LWP::Protocol
LWP::Protocol is up to date (6.00).

cpan[4]> install HTTP::Request
HTTP::Request is up to date (6.00).

cpan[5]> install HTTP::Response
HTTP::Response is up to date (6.03).
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I'm just not seeing what I'm missing in order to get just this little bit 'o code to run. Help me, Obi Perl - you're my only hope.

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Re: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by kcott (Archbishop) on Jul 27, 2012 at 21:55 UTC
$mech->get( $uri ) returns an HTTP::Response object. Try changing `$mech->get('http://www.perlmonks.com/'); print $mech->content;` [download] to `my $http_response_object = $mech->get('http://www.perlmonks.com/'); print $http_response_object->content;` [download] This worked for me: `$ perl -e 'use WWW::Mechanize; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new; my $hro + = $mech->get(q{http://www.perlmonks.com/}); print $hro->content' \| l +ess` [download] -- Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by ggerke (Novice) on Jul 28, 2012 at 11:37 UTC
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I get the same results... $ perl -e 'use WWW::Mechanize; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new; my $hro= $mech->get(q{http://www.perlmonks.com/}); print $hro->content' Error GETing http://www.perlmonks.com/: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported at -e line 1. However, oddly enough if I do the same command with sudo I get the following: $ sudo perl -e 'use WWW::Mechanize; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new; my $hro= $mech->get(q{http://www.perlmonks.com/}); print $hro->content' HTML::Parser object version 3.69 does not match bootstrap parameter 3.55 at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 94. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Entities.pm line 152. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/TokeParser.pm line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/TokeParser.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 134. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 134. Compilation failed in require at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. So I checked HTML::Parser and the rest and found: $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell `cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9800) Ente +r 'h' for help. cpan[1]> install HTML::Parser HTML::Parser is up to date (3.69). cpan[2]> install XSLoader XSLoader is up to date (0.15). cpan[3]> install HTML::Entities HTML::Entities is up to date (3.69). cpan[4]> install HTML::TokeParser HTML::TokeParser is up to date (3.69). cpan[5]> install WWW::Mechanize WWW::Mechanize is up to date (1.72).` [download] And then looking at my @INC and doing some find'ing I'm seeing: $ perl -e 'print join("\n",@INC);' /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 . $ $ $ sudo find /usr -name Mechanize.pm -exec ls -l {} \; -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 79472 Feb 2 16:38 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 +.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm $ $ $ sudo find /usr -name Parser.pm -exec ls -l {} \; -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39789 Oct 15 2011 /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5 +.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Parser.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39509 Jul 10 2006 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl +/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Parser.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27103 Aug 18 2003 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl +/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64063 Dec 16 2011 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Par +ser.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 51259 Feb 20 2011 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/TAP/Par +ser.pm $ $ $ sudo find /usr -name TokeParser.pm -exec ls -l {} \; -r--r--r-- 1 root root 10104 Oct 15 2011 /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5 +.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/TokeParser.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10134 Apr 26 2006 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl +/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/TokeParser.pm $ [download] Does any of that give a clue as to what's going on here...?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by kcott (Archbishop) on Jul 28, 2012 at 17:04 UTC
With all the same versions you show above and in your OP, I cannot reproduce your problem. I have a newer version of Perl than you and I'm on a different architecture: `$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration +: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=11.3.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level uname='darwin ganymede 11.3.0 darwin kernel version 11.3.0: thu ja +n 12 18:47:41 pst 2012; root:xnu-1699.24.23~1release_x86_64 x86_64 '` [download] Read more... (4 kB) I noticed a discrepancy between versions for `HTML::Parser`. When you used `sudo` (above), `3.69` was returned without error: `$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell ... HTML::Parser is up to date (3.69).` [download] without `sudo` (below), `3.55` was returned with an error: `$ perl -MDevel::Modlist -MWWW::Mechanize -e 1 HTML::Parser object version 3.55 does not match bootstrap parameter 3. +69 ...` [download] This sounds like two separate installations of Perl that are not in sync. I see you've added `perl -V` output below; what does `sudo perl -V` produce? -- Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by Anonymous Monk on Jul 29, 2012 at 11:59 UTC
Re^5: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by Bejjan (Novice) on Jul 30, 2012 at 07:03 UTC
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Re^2: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by Jessarah FL (Novice) on Mar 25, 2013 at 14:28 UTC
I was having a similar error with: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported I had installed libwww-perl-6.04 on perl 5.8 It was solved by installing libwww-perl-5.837 -Jess	[reply]
Re^3: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by kcott (Archbishop) on Mar 25, 2013 at 18:05 UTC
G'day Jess, Welcome to the monastery. Thanks for the heads-up but I wasn't the one experiencing a problem. It looks like your reply was intended for ggerke: it can be moved, if you want. -- Ken	[reply]
Re^4: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2013 at 11:54 UTC
Re: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2012 at 00:00 UTC
What do you have installed? Upgrade $ perl -MDevel::Modlist -MWWW::Mechanize -e 1 AutoLoader 5.72 Carp 1.25 Compress::Raw::Zlib 2.054 Compress::Zlib 2.052 Config Encode 2.44 Encode::Alias 2.15 Encode::Config 2.05 Encode::Encoding 2.05 Exporter 5.66 Exporter::Heavy 5.66 Fcntl 1.11 File::Glob 1.12 File::GlobMapper 1.000 File::Spec 3.33 File::Spec::Unix 3.33 File::Spec::Win32 3.33 HTML::Entities 3.69 HTML::Form 6.03 HTML::Parser 3.69 HTML::PullParser 3.57 HTML::Tagset 3.20 HTML::TokeParser 3.69 HTTP::Date 6.02 HTTP::Headers 6.00 HTTP::Message 6.03 HTTP::Request 6.00 HTTP::Response 6.03 HTTP::Status 6.03 IO 1.25_04 IO::Compress::Adapter::Deflate 2.052 IO::Compress::Base 2.052 IO::Compress::Base::Common 2.052 IO::Compress::Gzip 2.052 IO::Compress::Gzip::Constants 2.052 IO::Compress::RawDeflate 2.052 IO::Compress::Zlib::Extra 2.052 IO::File 1.15 IO::Handle 1.31 IO::Seekable 1.1 IO::Uncompress::Adapter::Inflate 2.052 IO::Uncompress::Base 2.052 IO::Uncompress::Gunzip 2.052 IO::Uncompress::RawInflate 2.052 LWP 6.04 LWP::MemberMixin LWP::Protocol 6.00 LWP::UserAgent 6.04 List::Util 1.25 Scalar::Util 1.25 SelectSaver 1.02 Storable 2.30 Symbol 1.07 Time::Local 1.2000 URI 1.60 URI::Escape 3.31 WWW::Mechanize 1.72 XSLoader 0.15 base 2.18 bytes 1.04 constant 1.21 feature 1.20 overload 1.13 utf8 1.09 vars 1.02 warnings 1.12 warnings::register 1.02 [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by ggerke (Novice) on Jul 28, 2012 at 11:47 UTC
Well, this is something new: $ perl -MDevel::Modlist -MWWW::Mechanize -e 1 HTML::Parser object version 3.55 does not match bootstrap parameter 3. +69 at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm +line 253. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_ +64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/Entities.pm line 152. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_ +64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/TokeParser.pm line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ +x86_64-linux-thread-multi/HTML/TokeParser.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Me +chanize.pm line 134. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WW +W/Mechanize.pm line 134. Compilation failed in require. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. AutoLoader 5.60 Carp 1.26 Config DynaLoader 1.05 Encode 2.12 Encode::Alias 2.04 Encode::Config 2.01 Encode::Encoding 2.02 Exporter 5.58 Exporter::Heavy 5.58 Fcntl 1.05 HTML::Entities 3.69 HTML::Form 6.03 HTML::Parser 3.69 HTML::TokeParser HTTP::Date 6.02 HTTP::Headers 6.00 HTTP::Message 6.03 HTTP::Request 6.00 HTTP::Response 6.03 HTTP::Status 6.03 LWP 6.04 LWP::MemberMixin LWP::Protocol 6.00 LWP::UserAgent 6.04 Storable 2.30 Time::Local 1.11 URI 1.60 URI::Escape 3.31 WWW::Mechanize XSLoader 0.15 base 2.07 bytes 1.02 integer 1.00 overload 1.04 vars 1.01 warnings 1.05 warnings::register 1.01 [download] I checked my path and current directory to be sure I wasn't looking somewhere I didn't mean to be: $ echo $PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/5bin:/adm/bin:/opt/admin/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/opt/VRTS/bin $ $ ls usr/* ls: usr/*: No such file or directory $ Thanks for your time looking...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Jul 28, 2012 at 13:49 UTC
IIRC, we used to see something exactly similar (:-D) to this in a previous incarnation when attempting to run perl v5.10 against libraries (badly) pre-built and and installed for v5.8. Are you sure that you haven't got a similar situation whereby there's a mismatch between the perl version you're running and the version for/from which the library/ies were built and installed ? perl -V might well be of use since, amongst other things, it identifies the library locations perl is attempting to read. Just a thought ... A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re^4: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by ggerke (Novice) on Jul 28, 2012 at 14:05 UTC
Re^5: Protocol scheme 'http' is not supported by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 28, 2012 at 15:40 UTC
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