Hello,

Thank you for the response. I agree, HTTP is not HTTPS and I had not thought to try this. But changing this line of code only serves to confuse Perl about where the proxy is located. The proxy no longer sees any traffic and the script just hangs without doing anything. I haven't confirmed this with a packet sniffer, but I'd guess that this change directs all outgoing HTTPS traffic to port 443 of the proxy machine, rather than port 8118 where it should go.

I should point out that I need both HTTP and HTTPS to go through the proxy. I can think of very few sites that are purely HTTPS. Yahoo, for instance, would use HTTPS for authentication and then move back to HTTP for most other pages.

I think that CONNECT needs to be implemented in HTTP::Request, then WWW::Mechanize needs to test if a proxy is defined and if it's for HTTPS, then call CONNECT rather than GET. I just wish I knew that this was the right thing to do before I modify these packages...

Thanks again for your suggestion.

In reply to Re^2: WWW::Mechanize (and LWP) should use CONNECT for HTTPS request when a proxy is used? by spunk
in thread WWW::Mechanize (and LWP) should use CONNECT for HTTPS request when a proxy is used? by spunk

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