Telnet doesn’t use the colon
$ telnet <address> <port>

But i think you’re right about the addresses being wrong bad. “http” means
port “:80” and “https” uses port “:443”

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:27 PM Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote:

> On 8/26/19 8:00 PM, Mike wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > use constant USGS_URL => 'https://ned.usgs.gov/epqs/pqs.php';
> > to
> > use constant USGS_URL => 'https://nationalmap.gov/epqs/pqs.php';
> >
>
> have you tried to just telnet to those hosts?
>
>   telnet nationalmap.gov:443
> telnet: could not resolve nationalmap.gov:443/telnet: Name or service
> not known
> telnet ned.usgs.gov:443
> telnet: could not resolve ned.usgs.gov:443/telnet: Name or service not
> known
>
>
> so there is something wrong with the urls and not the code (or the code
> has bad urls).
>
> and just getting the web pages is also failing
>
> GET https://ned.usgs.gov/epqs/pqs.php
> <error>General failure: Invalid Coordinates</error>
>
> GET https://nationalmap.gov/epqs/pqs.php
> <error>General failure: Invalid Coordinates</error>
>
> i dunno the module but it seems that you may not be passing in any
> coordinates or something else is needed.
>
> uri
>
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