title: my first perl script: using "get($url)" method in a loop?
body: <p>So it seemed easy enough. Use a series of nested loops to go though a ton of URLs sorted by year/month/day and download the XML files.
  As this is my first script, I started with the loop; something familiar in any language. I ran it just printing the constructed URLs and it worked perfect. 
  I then wrote the code to download the content and save it separately, and that worked perfect as well with a sample URL on multiple test cases.
  But when I combined these two bits of code, it broke, the program just got stuck and did nothing at all.
  I therefore ran the debugger and as I stepped through it, it became stuck on this one line:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>warnings::register::import(/usr/share/perl/5.10/warnings/register.pm:25):25:vec($warnings::Bits{$k}, $warnings::LAST_BIT, 1) = 0;</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>If I just hit r to return from the subroutine it works and continues to another point on its way back down the call stack where something similar happens over and over for some time. The stack trace:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>$ = warnings::register::import('warnings::register') called from file `/usr/lib/perl/5.10/Socket.pm' line 7</p>
    
    <p>$ = Socket::BEGIN() called from file `/usr/lib/perl/5.10/Socket.pm' line 7</p>
    
    <p>$ = eval {...} called from file `/usr/lib/perl/5.10/Socket.pm' line 7</p>
    
    <p>$ = require 'Socket.pm' called from file `/usr/lib/perl/5.10/IO/Socket.pm' line 12</p>
    
    <p>$ = IO::Socket::BEGIN() called from file `/usr/lib/perl/5.10/Socket.pm' line 7</p>
    
    <p>$ = eval {...} called from file `/usr/lib/perl/5.10/Socket.pm' line 7</p>
    
    <p>$ = require 'IO/Socket.pm' called from file `/usr/share/perl5/LWP/Simple.pm' line 158</p>
    
    <p>$ = LWP::Simple::_trivial_http_get('www.aDatabase.com', 80, '/sittings/1987/oct/20.xml') called from file `/usr/share/perl5/LWP/Simple.pm' line 136</p>
    
    <p>$ = LWP::Simple::_get('<a href="http://www.aDatabase.com/1987/oct/20.xml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.aDatabase.com/1987/oct/20.xml</a>') called from file `xmlfetch.pl' line 28</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>As you can see it is getting stuck inside this "get($url)" method, and I have no clue why?
  Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use LWP::Simple;
  
  $urlBase = 'http://www.aDatabase.com/subheading/';
  $day=1;
  $month=1;
  @months=("list of months","jan","feb","mar","apr","may","jun","jul","aug","sep","oct","nov","dec");
  $year=1987;
  $nullXML = "&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?&gt;\n&lt;nil-classes type=\"array\"/&gt;\n";
  
  while($year&lt;=2006)
      {
      $month=1;
      while($month&lt;=12)
          {
          $day=1;
          while($day&lt;=31)
              {
              $newUrl = "$urlBase$year/$months[$month]/$day.xml";
              $content = get($newUrl);
              if($content ne $nullXML)
                  {
                  $filename = "$year-$month-$day.xml";
                  open(FILE, "&gt;$filename");
                  print FILE $content;
                  close(FILE);
                  }
              $day++;
              }
          $month++;
          }
      $year++;
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am almost positive it is something tiny I just dont know, but google has not turned up anything.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,</p>
  
  <p>B.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> It's official, it just hangs forever inside this get method, runs for several loops then hangs again for a while. But its still a problem. Why is this happening?</p>