I would not expect what you have to work. That's because you have created two user agent objects, $ua and $mech (yes the latter is a user agent object too, because WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent), one ($ua) that is configured for use with a proxy (but is otherwise not used), and the other ($mech) that is not configured to use a proxy. I think what you want is something more like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Data::Dumper;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(cookie_jar => {}, agent => "WWW-Mechani
+ze/0.01");

$url = 'http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/aixfixes.ht
+ml';

$mech->proxy('http','192.168.1.248');
$mech->get( $url );
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/More fix services/);
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/AIX 5.3/);
$mech->follow_link( text_regex => qr/Data file for AIX 5.3/);

print Dumper $mech;

[download]
Note that what I have done is treat $mech as an LWP::UserAgent object. (If it's not clear what's going on, take a look at perltoot.)

BTW, you should get into the habit of checking for the success of requests made through the $mech object; you do this with its is_success method.

the lowliest monk

In reply to Re^5: Cookie protected web page and file downloading by tlm
in thread Cookie protected web page and file downloading by reTard

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