Will you need to use authentication to get through the proxy? If so, you may run into some difficulties using the usual modules. I have had to use the CPAN module Net::HTTPTunnel instead of any of the LWP::UserAgent modules to do this.

An example:
use Net::HTTPTunnel;
use HTTP::Request;

my $proxy_host = "192.168.1.1";
my $proxy_port = "83";
my $proxy_user = "username";
my $proxy_pass = "password";

my $ht = Net::HTTPTunnel->new( 'proxy-host' => $proxy_host,
                               'proxy-port' => $proxy_port,
                               'remote-host' => 'www.perlmonks.org',
                               'remote-port' => '80',
                               'proxy-user' => $proxy_user,
                               'proxy-pass' => $proxy_pass,
                               'timeout' => 20);
                                   
$ht or die "request timed out";

# generate an HTTP request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl
+?node_id=317556");
    
print $ht $req->as_string;                    # print the request to t
+he socket
    
my $response;
while (<$ht>) {$response .= $_;}            # read response (the HTML 
+web page) from the socket

close $ht;                                    # close the socket

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The page is now stored in $response, to do with as you please.

In reply to Re: Connection through a proxy by TwistedGreen
in thread Connection through a proxy by freak

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