Hello

I am trying to run this script. but it saying "500 Can't connect to twitter.com:80 (Bad hostname)" 

LWP::Simple
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Net::SSL (); # From Crypt-SSLeay
$Net::HTTPS::SSL_SOCKET_CLASS = "Net::SSL"; # Force use of Net::SSL
$ENV{HTTP_PROXY} = 'http://defaultgatewayusedbymyPC:port';
$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = HTTP::Request->new('GET','http://twitter.com');
my $res = $ua->request($req);
print $res->status_line;

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actually I have to run perl script which access http and ftp but before that I am trying to find out which way proxy settings should be written.

But alas its not working. I have tried many ways, i think I am missing something

Please Help me

If possible please reply as early as possible

In reply to proxy problwm LWP by reciter

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