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Greeting O learned monks ...
coming straight to the problem, I get an error 'Malformed URL' while trying to send a whois request through a proxy, using 
$ua->proxy(http => 'http://139.85.249.14:80');
my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET' , '$netgeo->getCountry(202.54.12.30)
+')

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BTW, Netgeo is a module used to resolve IP addresses by country, etc.... got it from www.caida.org
I suspect it is because of the proto given as HTTP. Pls advise ..
Thanks in advance ...

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Re: ICMP through proxy
by blakem (Monsignor) on Oct 03, 2001 at 12:16 UTC
    Try removing the ' marks from your last line: 
    my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET' , $netgeo->getCountry(202.54.12.30) 
+);

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    As it is, you are attempting to use the literal url '$netgeo->getCountry(202.54.12.30)' which is certainly not what you want.

    -Blake

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      Thanks .. it works .. kind of .. This is the value stored in the variable ... 
      HTTP::Response=HASH(0x1f59de8)

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      The NetGeo returns a hash from which values can be accessed using keywords ... but now, I have the text included. I tried substring, but I am unable to access the values using keywords from the hash as I get an error message. Pls help ..
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        You should probably read the documentation on HTTP::Response. 
        % perldoc HTTP::Response

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        Here is an example taken from it: 
        $response = $ua->request($request)
if ($response->is_success) {
    print $response->content;
} else {
    print $response->error_as_HTML;
}

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        I don't entirely understand your question, but this should get you pointed in the right direction.

        -Blake

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