Re: Bad protocol 'tcp' with perl/lwp module connections

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Dirk Fokken, Cross Development wrote:

> Running a cgi script like the following from the command line works
> pretty fine.
>
> Running the same script from within the browser result in an error
> message like:
>
> http://192.168.0.5/cgi-bin/lwp.cgi
> > 500 Can't connect to search.cpan.org:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp')
>
> The sample script:
> ------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use CGI qw(:standard);
>
> print header();
>
>   # Create a user agent object
>   use LWP::UserAgent;
>   $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
>   $ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");
>
>   # Create a request
>   my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://search.cpan.org/search');
>   $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
>   $req->content('query=libwww-perl&mode=dist');
>
>   # Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
>   my $res = $ua->request($req);
>
>   # Check the outcome of the response
>   if ($res->is_success) {
>       print $res->content;
>   }
>   else {
>       print $res->status_line, "\n";
>   }
> ------------------------------
>
> System versions are:
>
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         DLL version: 1.5.10
>
> on
>
>     Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195
>
>      + Apache/1.3.29
>
> Many thanks for help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dirk

You already posted this (or something close enough to it):
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00573.html>.
It was replied to: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00574.html>.

Please attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your system.  Also, please
show the output of "ls -l /etc/protocols", preferably from the two
invocations of the script.
	Igor
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