I have what seemed to me at first, a very simple question that would seemingly (and may still have) a trivial solution. However, I cannot find the information for this question anywhere--

I am making a simple cgi script that retrieves webpages written in PERL. I wanted to fetch them through a proxy server for the heck of it, but could not find out how. I've looked all over and the problem became more and more annoying to a point now that I HAVE to find the solution soon to keep my sanity. ! :)

I figured it would be something simple such as add the proxy addr and port somewhere in the header, but I can't find any information about it of course.

THe script works without proxys, that's not a problem. Just need the snippits that will allow a proxy connection and I'll be a happy camper.

I never looked at the DBI:proxy module and don't know if this will help. It may be the solution i'm avoiding, just looking for the simple answer.

In reply to Proxy Experts Out There? by bzbzbz

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