Thanks! Initial results look promising although I will need to re-try in the office. ++ to you!

Update: The change worked!.

For future reference, the code looks like this.

# Create User Agent
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(timeout => 30, keep_alive => 10);

# Use a proxy server if configured for normal HTTP
$ua->proxy (['http'], $ProxyUrl) if $ProxyUrl;

# Add Env var for Crypt::SSLeay
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = $ProxyUrl) if $ProxyUrl;
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