Hey I wrote the following code to get the http page from a website. As sending request from behind the firewall,the request has to be sent via a proxy server whose address can be obtained from the ".pac" file.

use HTTP::ProxyPAC;
my $pac = HTTP::ProxyPAC->new('c:\perl\proxypac.pac');
my $res = $pac->find_proxy('http://esto*******tt.coml');
#print $res;
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->proxy('http',$res);
my $content =$ua->get('http://esto*******tt.com');
print $content->content();
exit 0;

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I think the $res is not getting the correct URI,how can I correct it.
Its value was HTTP::ProxyPAC::Result=HASH(0x33ad284)

The output is  500  no host option provided

I am using strawberry perl on windows vista. I have just starting learning Perl about 3 weeks ago so I request you to please be explanative.

One more thing just for if it helps, CPAN was not able to install modules too by the usual command " cpan < module name>" as I think the firewall is rejecting any request sent using LWP library( may be the problem is same with parsing the PAC file). I had to install modules manually.

In reply to :Problem with Parsing the Proxy Auto Configure File by codenamemessiah

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