not able to fetch the request

Hi All
i am trying to send this url request by my perl cgi script but i am not
able to do it , i am getting tthe error :"bad host name"
while from the browser, i am able to get the page.
when i put the given link on browser it prompt for user id and password
aftre giving that ,i get the page.
but on writing the cgi script for that i am not able to do that
can anyone help me out to write a script for that.
the link is given below


http://xx.xx.com/cr?v=v_p&s=r&m=xml&f=a9a8g1dce1k9hcdbztf6f8 i1&c=011a87Open%25,111f67CW85&t=0&o=dc0g11e10k90%40%400&t1=1 &t0=hint%20GSM%20(CW85)%20WOH

help me out geeks

Re: not able to fetch the request

HP wrote:

> i am trying to send this url request by my perl cgi script but i am not
> able to do it , i am getting tthe error :"bad host name"
> while from the browser, i am able to get the page.

This probably means the name is not a public DNS name but is accessible
from the network where your browser is located. It is however not
accessible from the server where your CGI scripr is executing.

> the link is given below
>
>
> http://xx.xx.com/[ ...]

Yes, I can confirm that the domain name xx.xx.com does not resolve
here.