in reply to HTTP Request Hangs
Try to enable debug logging in LWP to see what happens (see LWP::Debug). What version of Perl are you using? If you use 5.005 then it comes with IO::Socket module which has a bug in timeout handling (IIRC LWP uses this module). You should upgrade to fixed version in this case.
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