in reply to LWP::NOT so simple

Set your environment variable HTTP_PROXY to the URL of your proxy, in the format like "http://proxy.pandora.be:8080" — that's the proxy my provider makes me use. Next, after you created the $ua, and before trying to retrieve the page over http, call
$ua->env_proxy;
That should do the trick — unless you still need a username and password for the proxy?