Hello,

I am trying to get WWW::Mechanize to run while at work. To get out to the internet from our web browser we use a proxy along with a username/password, ie. the first time I bring up my web browser to an external web address I enter my username and password and the proxy lets me out to external internet addresses.

In the past I would use LWP::UserAgent to get an external web page with the following script: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI;
use Getopt::Long;

GetOptions(qw(proxy));

$user = "myusername";
$passwd = "mypassword";

foreach $url2get (@ARGV) { 
  $url = new URI "http://$url2get";
  $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $url;

  if($opt_proxy) {
   $ua->agent("Mozilla/4.05");  # pretend I am a Netscape browser
   $ua->proxy(['http'], 'http://wwwproxy.mycompany.com:1080');
   $req->proxy_authorization_basic($user,$passwd);
  }
  
  $res = $ua->request($req);
  
  # check the outcome
  if ($res->is_success) {
    print $res->content;
  } 
  else {
    print "Error: " . $res->code . " " . $res->message;
  }
}

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Although LWP::UserAgent says it can handle a proxy I couldn't figure out a way to get it to work with a proxy that expects a username and password and somehow found in a web search something similar to how the above scripts works.

Ok, now I am trying to use WWW::Mechanize and it says to handle a proxy it relies or leverages on LWP::UserAgent for this. I can replace LWP::UserAgent with WWW::Mechanize in the above script to fetch a web page fine but the other aspects of WWW::Mechanize such as "following" a link, "click", etc. will get denied by the proxy as they dont have the URI and HTTP::Request stuff happening to them.

Has anyone ever gotten LWP::UserAgent to work with a proxy with username/password without resorting to the use of URI and HTTP::Request like above as if I can do this I then think WWW::Mechanize would work similarly?

Thanks, perlhack

In reply to WWW::Mechanize and proxy with username/password by perlhack

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