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I can successfully ping securities.stanford.edu ... Can't connect to www.securities.stanford.edu:80 (Bad hostname)

Note the different hostnames. From here, I can resolve securities.stanford.edu, but not www.securities.stanford.edu. Try changing your code to my $get_file = "http://securities.stanford.edu/...

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Re^2: How to resolve bad hostname error message
by rachard11 (Acolyte) on May 02, 2017 at 18:03 UTC
    Wow--that seems to have gotten around the problem. I didn't realize removing the www. would make a difference. Thanks!
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