I am presently stuck developing on a pretty old machine in our Intranet. It's got RH Linux 6.2, so is running Perl 5.003 and a rather old (5.36) version of LWP.

This version of LWP chokes on the normal $ua->proxy('http','http://username:password@proxy:port/') This version of LWP also lacks the proxy_authentication method that I found by searching Perlmonks.

Installing modern modules is something of a hit-and-miss on this computer, due to the older libraries and program versions. In particular, "use warnings" and "our" are no-no's, and require lots of wild editing of the module files.

How can I make this work with the old LWP, or how new an LWP I would need to install to get this functionality? Would the newest LWP likely install on such a machine with just removing all the "use warnings" and removing the "our"s (probably nuking "use strict" in the process -- not the nicest thing in the world to have to do)? Unfortunately, the server I am programming on is a production machine, and an upgrade to a modern OS and Perl would break things that I would rather not have to fix (like a big PHP site -- ick), and is remote to me. This is the only use of LWP on the server, so I can freely mess with that...

In reply to Ancient LWP and proxies by mpolo

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