Hi Monks,
I'm getting the following error from a piece of code I found on the intertubes 
Cannot initialize proxy daemon: Can't assign requested address at /Lib
+rary/Perl/5.10.0/HTTP/Proxy.pm line 271.

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This is running on OSX 10.6.3 with the latest modules downloaded from cpan today.
I've tried running it under sudo, but the same error occurs.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTTP::Recorder "0.03_01";
use HTTP::Proxy;

# Set everything to undef if you have no proxy-servers
# in your organisation
my %whoami = (
        # listen to every network interface on this machine:
    # host => undef,
    # host => "127.0.0.1",
        # listen only to network interface 10.1.1.5
    host => "10.95.81.5",
        # which is the port I shall listen
        port => "3128",
);

# this is for forwarding all requests to my proxy in the company
my %proxy = (
        host => "http://proxy.zdf:3128",
        user => undef,
        pass => undef,
);

# set HTTP::Recorder as the agent
my $agent = HTTP::Recorder->new(
        # Log to a file
        # file => "/tmp/tmpfile",
        file => "proxy.log",
        showwindow => 1);

# Set my own proxy to forward requests
$agent->proxy( "http", $proxy{host} )
        if $proxy{host};
$request->proxy_authorization_basic( @proxy{ qw/user pass/ } )
        if $proxy{user};

my $proxy = HTTP::Proxy->new;
$proxy->agent( $agent );
$proxy->port( $whoami{port} )
        if $whoami{port};

# Set how I get soon from my users
if ( $whoami{host} ) {
        # My interface to be reached
        $proxy->host( $whoami{host} );
}
# My port to be reached
$proxy->port( $whoami{port} );

# you may need to set the host

print "Your proxy-server in your web-browser shall be:\n";
printf "\t%s:%s\n",
    $whoami{host} ? $whoami{host} : "the_host_i_run",
    $whoami{port} ? $whoami{port} : 8080;

print "Navigate to http://http-recorder/ to download the script\n";
print "\twhich has been generated\n";


# Endless loop
$proxy->start();

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In reply to HTTP::Proxy error by Anonymous Monk

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