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Dear brothers and sisters in Perl,
I'm rewriting an existing codelet that nails up a dial connection via HTTP fetches, so that it randomly selects from a list of web pages to fetch and waits a random length of time between fetches. All fairly straightforward and no problems. That is, until I move the code from my workstation to the dial-connected firewall/proxy, where it fails to run and gives this error:

Can't locate object method "new" via package "URI::URL" at ./wtest.pl line 12

I've reinstalled URI, downgraded it to v1.17, upgraded it back to v1.18, all to no avail. It can't be left to run on my workstation, as it would only fetch from firewall's proxy instead of from the web. What other troubleshooting steps might you recommend?

Minimized code and additional details follow.
stymied, puzzled, baffled and perplexed,
Don

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# wtest.pl
# 2002-04-16  ybiC

$|++;
require 5;
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $site = shift;
my $url  = new URI::URL($site);
my $req  = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url);
my $ua   = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $resp = $ua->request($req);
if ($resp->is_success) {
  # print $resp->content;
  print "Received response from $site\n";
}
else { print "Error: ", $resp->message, "\n\n"; }
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Relevant modules (all installed without a hitch):

URI
MIME::Base64
HTML::Parser
libnet
Digest::MD5
HTML::Tagset
LWP::UserAgent

@INC contains the following:

/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/5.005
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/
/usr/lib/perl5

Perl 5.00503
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r6

In reply to Can't locate object method new via package URI::URL by ybiC

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