: However, when I'm trying this very URL with curl within my (perl) script, I : receive a NullPointerException: : CURL-COMMAND: curl -sL : http://localhost:8983/solr/select?indent=on&version=2.2&q=*&fq=ListId%3A881&start=0&rows=0&fl=*%2Cscore&qt=standard&wt=standard
it appears you aren't quoting the URL, so that first "&" character is causing the shell to think yo uare done with the command, and you want it to be backgrounded (allthough i'm not certain, since it depends on how you are having perl execute curl) i would suggest that you avoid exec/system calls to "curl" from Perl, and use an LWP::UserAgent instead. -Hoss
