Hi, I've seen quite a bit on this topic, both here and around the net, but I'm still having some issues with this code. Basically, this test script is attempting to return the raw html for the site defined below. It works fine for http, but not for https, which returns a 400 error (bad request). I've already set $ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} and am also using Crypt::SSLeay, both recommended fixes I've seen elsewhere. It could be related to the proxy, but I unfortunately can't test it without one (I've changed the actual proxy address for my company due to paranoia). Here's the code: 
use strict;
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = 'my_proxy:8080';

use HTML::Parser;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use Crypt::SSLeay;
use LWP::Debug qw(+);

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$mech->agent('Mozilla/5.0');
$mech->proxy(['https', 'http', 'ftp'], 'my_proxy:8080');

# http
$mech->get("http://www.google.com");

# https
#$mech->get("https://www.cia.gov");
my $c = $mech->content;

print $c;

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Anything I'm obviously doing wrong here? I've hit a wall with my little project due to this. Any help would be much appreciated...

In reply to WWW::Mechanize with https and a proxy by justinm1

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