I am using perl 5.8.0 on cygwin and can't get the LWP library working with the Microsoft Proxie, while lynx is working with no problem (and mozilla too). Here is a script: 
use LWP::Debug 'level';
level('+');
use LWP::UserAgent;
$pm = 'www.perlmonks.org';
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");
$ua->proxy('http', 'http://wawprx01.waw.nestle.pl');
my $res = $ua->get("http://$pm");
print $res->status_line, "\n";

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and here is the error stream output (^M where originally is a <CR>): 
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::proxy: http http://wawprx01.waw.nestle.pl
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::send_request: GET http://www.perlmonks.org
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Proxied to http://wawprx01.waw.nestle.pl
LWP::Protocol::http::request: ()
LWP::Protocol::http::request: GET http://www.perlmonks.org HTTP/1.1^M
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3^M
Connection: TE, close^M
Host: www.perlmonks.org^M
User-Agent: MyApp/0.1 libwww-perl/5.68^M
^M
LWP::Protocol::collect: read 87 bytes
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Bad Request

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I've removed the '#' in the LWP::Protocol::http.pm line 207 to print the literary request. Has anybody a clue what's wrong?

update (broquaint): fixed typo in subject (s/Proxie$/Proxy/)

In reply to LWP::UserAgent on cygwin and Microsoft Proxy by zby

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