I am trying to write a script that uses LWP (perl 10.5.0) with Cygwin. I am trying some of the simple examples scattered around but cannot get anything to work except, seemingly:

use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple;

$req=LWP::Request->new(GET=>"www.mysite.com");
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That seems to return a hash but when I use '$req->is_success', or '$req->content' or '$req->status_line' on I get errors saying can't locate the object method. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? TIA.