Now that I know the LWP::UserAgent::POE is currently not working I tried the POE::Component::Client::HTTP and while many things are unclear to me here is one I can easily show. I downloaded the example that comes with the module and tried it: https://metacpan.org/source/RCAPUTO/POE-Component-Client-HTTP-0.945/examples/pcchget.perl perl pcchget.perl http://poe.perl.org within 1 sec perl pcchget.perl http://perl.org within 1 sec telling me to redirect to http://www.perl.org/ perl pcchget.perl http://www.perl.org I only see the response after 20 sec but then it prints out the content of the web site. So if I understand it reaches the timeout but then returns with the real content? The same with http://dev.perl.org but http://debugger.perl.org/ answers within a second too. time wget http://www.perl.org/ gives me 1 second. Could someone, please help me understand this? Gabor