I am somewhat proffecient in LWP but am having difficulty getting the following proxy method to work.

I have based this solution off of Toma's LWP Quick reference guide. If anyone knows a better way to do the proxy please let me know in easy to follow code. 

use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::Simple qw( $ua get );
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;

$proxy = "72.43.50.184:80";
$contentget = "http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.837/lib/LWP/
+UserAgent.pm"; 

$ua->timeout(3); 
$ua->proxy(['http'], '$proxy');
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => '$contentget';
my $res = $ua->request($req);
 
if ($res->is_success) 
{
  $content= $res->content;
} 
else 
{
  die "Could not get content";
}

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Result is: 

 Could not get content at C:\CC\BUY\ptest.pl line 22.

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There is also the 

$ua->proxy( 'http', $subproxy );my $content = get( $contentget )

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But that doesnt work either. Any help would be appreciated.

POST UPDATE 1

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Thank you for responding afoken

but when i tried adding the modifcations i get the following error. I tried escaping the / problem but still cant get it to work. 

use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::Simple qw( $ua get );
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use HTTP::Request

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;

$proxy='http://72.43.50.184:80/';
$contentget = "http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.837/lib/LWP/
+UserAgent.pm"; 

$ua->timeout(3); 
$ua->proxy(['http'], $proxy);
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => '$contentget';
my $res = $ua->request($req);
 
if ($res->is_success) 
{
  $content= $res->content;
} 
else 
{
  die "Could not get content";
}


# ptest.pl

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C:\CC\BUY>ptest.pl
Backslash found where operator expected at C:\CC\BUY\ptest.pl line 30,
+ near "CC\"
Backslash found where operator expected at C:\CC\BUY\ptest.pl line 30,
+ near "BUY\"
syntax error at C:\CC\BUY\ptest.pl line 30, near "Could not "
Execution of C:\CC\BUY\ptest.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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In reply to LWP proxy setup difficulty by Monkomatic

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