I'd like to add a big thank you, I am very flattered by this response. :)

This looks exactly like what i need, but being a bit of a perl novice I'm still not able to use this advice as I'd like.

I am trying to write a web page that will allow the surfer to enter a url, fetch the page content, then process the content (partially translate it into German**.), and produce a new copy of the now modified page. This would be fine if all the pages the surfer wanted were behind the university firewall were my proto-script lives. Of course, I want them to be able to access the entire web. If anyone could explain why the LWP::UserAgent method below doesn't solve my problem I'd be very grateful.

**It's for intermediate learners of english

Toby



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#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use URI;
use LWP::Simple;

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

$ua->proxy('http', 'http://$myproxy:$myport');

my $content = get("http://news.bbc.co.uk");

#Store the output of the web page (html and all) in content
if (defined $content)
{
    #$content will contain the html associated with the url mentioned 
+above.
    print $content;
}
else
{
    #If an error occurs then $content will not be defined.
    print "Error: Get stuffed";
}

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Edit: Added <code> tags. larsen

You need to import LWP::Simple's $ua before you can use it. And because you're explicitly requesting the export of a certain symbol, you have to ask for all of the ones you need. So replace your use line with

use LWP::Simple qw($ua get);
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Makeshifts last the longest.

Because you never defined $ua, so the proxy call doesn't do anything. LWP::Simple doesn't provide an interface to set the proxies in this manner, you need to do it by setting the $http_proxy environment variable instead...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple

$env{http_proxy} = "http://myproxy:myport";

my $content = get("http://news.bbc.co.uk");

if($content) {
    print $content;
} else {
    print "Error: Get stuffed";
}
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