Hi All,

My question is an extension of this node:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=248608

I need to use a proxy to login into a website (with my userid/passwd) to post to it.

It is straightforward when one uses the "GET":

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use strict;

push(@LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS, "LocalPort" => "7000");
my $a = new LWP::UserAgent();
$a->proxy('http', 'http://ofgfw1.owfg.com:8080/');
$a->get("http://mysite.com/");

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But let's say I want to use the "POST" in HTTP:Request, in something like:

my $url='mysite.com';
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "lwpcookies.txt", autosave 
+=> 1));
$req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'mysite.com/user_login.php');
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('username=peter&&passwd=password&&login=yes');
my $res = $ua->request($req);

$req = HTTP::Request->new( POST => $url . 'post_something.php' );
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content($data);
$res = $ua->request( $req );

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I was thinking of doing something like:

$ua->proxy('http', 'http://ofgfw1.owfg.com:8080/'); #???!!!

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But my program screams!

How to implement connecting to a proxy with "POST" as opposed to "GET"?

Any hints would be much appreciated.

--

Cheers,

Peter "Excalibur"

In reply to Force LWP to connect to a proxy for HTTP::Request POST by xcalibur

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