Perl Hangs On New Machine

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

Hello, I have a simple Perl script that scrapes some data from a web page, and then parses and writes it to a Mongo database. The script has been running fine on an Ubuntu 10.04 32 bit machine with Perl 5.10.1 However, I am now trying to run it on a Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit machine with Perl 5.14.2, and the script hangs. Specifically, when I create (not send) a post request. I put a print before and after the request, and the second print never happens. Any thoughts on why this might be occurring? The POST creation is below with the relevant websites removed.

        my $req = (POST 'https://www.myurlgoeshere.com',
        ["request" => "top",
        "language" => "en",
        "country" => "us",
        "month" => $currentMonth,
        "day" => $currentDay,
        "departure" => $depart,
        "arrival" => $arrive,
        "seat" => "1",
        "fromTop" => "on",
        "next.x" => "39",
        "next.y" =>"10"]);
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Re: Perl Hangs On New Machine by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Nov 13, 2012 at 20:38 UTC
Are you missing parts of your code above? Specifically, where is POST defined? --MidLifeXis	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Hangs On New Machine by redfieldp (Initiate) on Nov 14, 2012 at 17:09 UTC
POST is defined earlier in the file, as follows: `use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);` There is other content in the file (it's a sizeable script), but using print, I've determined this is where it hangs. Keep in mind that, as I mentioned, the same script runs fine on another box. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Perl Hangs On New Machine by Anonymous Monk on Nov 15, 2012 at 00:28 UTC
Doesn't happen :) Although you could use perl -d:Trace prog.pl ...	[reply]

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