I googled for wsp.pl and found a readme that doesn't mention a "-v" flag. Have you tried it without the "-v"?

Next, you should only use the "-p" only if you normally need another proxy to get to the websites you want to visit.
One way to simplify your problem might be to ignore the "-p proxy" bit for now and just try to goto internal websites that don't require a proxy. That should make it easier to learn to use wsp.pl.

Just out of curiosity, does this wsp.pl belong to a package or perl module or something?

This looks real bad: 

wsp.pl -v > filetosaveto -p proxy proxyport

[download]
wsp.pl does need redirection to do what you want, but it should be more like this: 
wsp.pl -v -p xyx 8080 > filetosaveto

[download]

Update: Added redirection hint.

andyford
or non-Perl: Andy Ford

In reply to Re: using the web scraping proxy by andyford
in thread using the web scraping proxy by coder57

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