I am trying to use LWP to retrieve https pages with no success, and I cannot determine if the problem is with my code or my server environment. My Red Hat server does have LWP::Protocol::https installed, as well as openSSL, and I can successfully retrieve non-secure pages (such as http://www.perlmonks.org) but trying to retrieve https pages returns various errors, depending on what page I attempt.

For example, a query on
https://www.performancebike.com/checkout/checkout_billto.html
returns a 408 - User-agent timeout error, while a query on
https://www.goto.com/s/dtc/simple-signup/
returns a 500 - Unexpected EOF error, and a query on
https://marx.aztronic.com/index.html
returns a 400 - Bad Request

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Protocol::https;


#my $url = "https://marx.aztronic.com/index.html";
#my $url = "https://www.performancebike.com/checkout/checkout_billto.h
+tml";
my $url = "https://www.goto.com/s/dtc/simple-signup/";
#my $url = "http://www.perlmonks.org";

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $request = new HTTP::Request GET=> $url;

my $page = $ua->request($request);

if ($page->is_success) {
    print $page->content;
} else {
    print $page->error_as_HTML;
}
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Do any monks know what could be causing all these varied errors and what I should change in my code or my server to fix it?

Humbly,
eMacks