Bug? Gopher + LWP + TOR does not work

I can query a gopher resource using LWP without any problem. But as soon as I wrap the perl process with a TOR client, the connection does not work anymore - it outputs error 500.
However, if I call lynx using the backtick operator, I can query the gopher resource, with and without TOR.

Does work:
./test.pl

Does not work:
torify -- ./test.pl

Example code "test.pl"

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
sub getWithStatus {
	my $url = shift;
	my $content;
	open my $RAM, '>', \$content;
	my $stdoutsaved = select;
	select *$RAM;
	my $status = getprint( $url );
	select $stdoutsaved;
	close $RAM;
	return $status, $content;
}
sub Main {
	$url = "gopher://whois.denic.de:43/0test.de";
	my( $status, $content ) = getWithStatus( $url );
	if( $status ne RC_OK ) {
		die "Get $url failed with HTTP status: $status";
	}
	print $content;
}
Main


Versions:

$uname -a
Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 (2017-08-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$perl -v
This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 1 (v5.24.1) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 73 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

$torify --version
Torsocks 2.2.0

libwww-perl has version 6.15-1 according to aptitude.