Perl script to add sock proxy settings for firefox

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

I get the following error message when attempting to assign an IP address to the sock proxy configuration:

MozRepl::RemoteObject: NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) nsIPrefBranch.setIntPref at ./Proxy_settings_vs_1_5.pl line 30.

Below is a snippet of my code: $prefs->setIntPref('network.proxy.socks', 23.19.58.245),"\n";

what is the expected data in this section? Is the sytax wrong?

I tried :

$prefs->setIntPref('network/proxy.socks = 23.19.58.245',"\n");
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but that gives me the same results. not sure how to resolve this. Any help will be appreciated.

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Re: Perl script to add sock proxy settings for firefox by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 06, 2014 at 20:25 UTC
`$prefs->setIntPref('network.proxy.socks', 23.19.58.245)` Try to put that IP address in quotes; otherwise it produces something that is very likely to surprise you: $ perl -wE 'say 23.19.58.245' :� Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl script to add sock proxy settings for firefox by Pretty_Boy_Hacka (Initiate) on Jun 07, 2014 at 16:49 UTC
when I do it that way this is the error message I get: Proxy type 1 MozRepl::RemoteObject: NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) nsIPrefBranch.setIntPref at ./Proxy_settings_vs_1_5.pl line 31.	[reply]