in reply to Connection through a proxy

The simplest script is:

# in your shell:
perl -MLWP::Simple -e "get 'http://www.example.com/'"

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assuming, that you have set your environment variables up correctly, that is, HTTP_PROXY=http://www.proxy-example.com:8080/.

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