LWP and SSL

I am using LWP and Crypt::SSLeay to grab a page with a https://
url , with most sites this works fine however with one partcular site the script times out all the time, if i put the URL into the browser window it takes a few secs, however via LWP the page is never displayed ,

I was wondering if this was something to do with this particualr sites SSL certificate , beaucse all the none SSL pages on the site are easily grabbed it is just the ones which have SSL security

my code is below for you to have a look at:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";


use LWP::Simple;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET);
use LWP::UserAgent;




my $URL = "https://xyz.com";

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;

$ua->timeout(60);

$ua->agent("AgentName/0.1 " . $ua->agent);

my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $URL;

#$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
#
#$req->content("ContactTitle=Mr&ContactForenames=XtestX&ContactSurname=Walsh&ContactEmail=p\@start.co.uk&ContactEveTel=0161 123 4567&ContactDayTel=0161 123 4567&ContactHouseNo=272&ContactPostcode=OL16 4AP&PolicyIncepDate=01/06/2001&next=");

my $res = $ua->request($req);

$content2 = $ua ->request($req)->as_string;



print $content2;
###-------------- end of code ------------------

If anyone can help i would be very grateful as this problem has me stumped

Waseem