Inspired by the Advanced Perl Programming book, I'm trying to use a POE module for the first time. As part of my script I also want to download a small web page, so I'm trying to use LWP::Simple. When I run my script, it gets to the LWP::Simple::get call and hangs. I have to use task manager to kill it (the cmd prompt won't respond to Ctrl-C). I took out most of my code and reproduced the problem with this simple script:

my $url = "http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=21788&archive=32709";

use LWP::Simple;
print "getting $url ...\n";
my $content = LWP::Simple::get($url);
die "Problem!" unless defined $content;
print "content: $content\n";

use POE qw(Component::RSSAggregator);  # bad line

__END__

With "bad line" commented out, it works:
 F:\cgi\wfmu>perl testget.pl
 getting "http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=21788&archive=32709"
 content: http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/NU/nu070117.mp3

With "bad line" present, it hangs:
 F:\cgi\wfmu>perl testget.pl
 getting "http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=21788&archive=32709"
[download]

I've poked around in the module source a very little bit looking for the problem, but I didn't see anything. Being completely unfamiliar with how POE works, I thought I'd ask for help before spending a lot of time on something obvious that I might be overlooking.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Joe