Hello, I'm trying to post a registration form to an HTTPS form through a socks proxy, but I've run into some problems.

I get...

'Bad arg length for Socket6::unpack_sockaddr_in6, length is 16, should be 28 at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.16/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Socket6.pm line 282, <STDIN> line 5.'

...when I run this code: 
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Protocol::socks;
use HTTP::Request;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent(agent => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
+ NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5');

$ua->proxy([qw(http https)] => "socks4://xx.xx.xx.xx:1080");

$ua->ssl_opts( verify_hostnames => 0 );

my $user_form_data = ["user"=>"$username", "pass"=>"$password", "passc
+heck"=>"$password"];

my $response = $ua->post("https://ssl.xxxxxx.com/post/register",$user_
+form_data);

die "Error: ", $response->status_line . "\n"
unless $response->content;

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I've seen a bit about this error online, but nothing that is clear. This code works fine with GET requests via HTTP (not HTTPS).

Also, I'm not sure if I need an ENV proxy variable entered, but, if I do, there is another problem: I have to change proxies halfway through the script and connect to another server.

Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!

Many thanks in advance,

Henry

In reply to HTTPS POST with LWP via Socks by hprince

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