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Hi,
How can I configure it to use a proxy:port for connection ?

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Re: Re: Automate your PerlMonks activities
by grantm (Parson) on Nov 27, 2002 at 11:42 UTC
    Did you try setting your 'http_proxy' environment variable to 'http://proxy:port'? That's the standard way for LWP scripts.
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      True, but the script needs to be told to use the proxy. For pm_login, add this line between lines 18 and 24: 
      $ua->proxy( 'http', $ENV{ HTTP_PROXY } ) if $ENV{ HTTP_PROXY };

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      I'm sure similar additions can be made to each script that needs it to add proxy functionality.
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        You're right of course, you do need to tell the UserAgent to use the proxy, but if you use the standard variable names (all lower case) then you simply say:

        $ua->env_proxy;
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        You shouldn't need to do this. The module automatically calls $ua->env_proxy;
        You should need merely to   export http_proxy=http://host:port or   setenv http_proxy http://host:port You might want to retrieve the latest version, too. It has some nice new features.

        jdporter
        ...porque es dificil estar guapo y blanco.

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