Empty content_file for LWP behind a proxy

jnwu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

In the following snippet of code, I have a LWP useragent behind a proxy making a request, where the content body is saved to a file.

$ua = new LWP::UserAgent( keep_alive => 1 );
$ua->proxy(['http', 'https'], $proxy);
$request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', 'http://www.google.com');
$response = $ua->request($request, '/root/content_file');
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In doing so, the content_file is empty after executing the code, and the response object contains a '_content' member (suggesting to me that the content did not get transferred over to the file).

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Thank you!

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Re: Empty content_file for LWP behind a proxy by Anonymous Monk on Jun 03, 2014 at 00:31 UTC
In doing so, the content_file is empty after executing the code, Well, that code isn't supposed to create a file Switch to WWW::Mechanize, its less typing/friendlier interface to LWP `$mech->get( $uri, ':content_file' => $tempfile );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Empty content_file for LWP behind a proxy by taint (Chaplain) on Jun 02, 2014 at 21:57 UTC
Greetings, jnwu. A couple of things come to mind; Did you `use warnings;` [download] If so, was any interesting output generated? Is this run via the web -- as a web based script, or the likes? If so, what do your web logs say? Any informational output that might be of help? Best wishes. --Chris Ąλɐp ʇɑəɹ⅁ ɐ əʌɐɥ puɐ ʻꜱdləɥ ꜱᴉɥʇ ədoH	[reply] [d/l]