I stumbled accross a previous question from 2004 but didn't really want to resurrect it: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=411687

I'm interested in the following code mentioned and I'm struggling to understand the two user/username and pass/password variables:

my $ua = LWP::Custom->new();
$ua->proxy(["http"], "http://proxy.com");
$ua->set_basic_credentials( $user, $pass );

package LWP::Custom;

use base 'LWP::UserAgent';

# add a set_basic_credentials method, using a closure to remember
{
    my ( $username, $password );
    sub set_basic_credentials{ ( $username, $password ) = @_[1..2] }
    sub get_basic_credentials{ $username, $password };
}

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I Assume user and pass refer to the proxy credentials, what does username and password refer to?

Also if my proxy were a hostname rather than a web address would I just insert http:// before the hostname, or use the IP address, or just the hostname? I'm getting a bit confused!

Thanks.

In reply to LWP::UserAgent proxy by whittick

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