Re: LWP::Simple request through a proxy

Your code isn't doing an LWP::Simple request. It's doing its request through LWP::UserAgent (LWP::Simple will use LWP::UserAgent itself as well). Do one to three things:

Forget about LWP::Simple. You seem to cope with LWP::UserAgent fine.
Use LWP::Simple, and have it export $ua. Set up the proxy through $au, as in your code (But the method above is just as easy).
Either use LWP::UserAgent or LWP::Simple as described above, and setup the proxy using environment variables and a call to $au -> env_proxy.

Futher note that the second argument of the proxy method must be the proxy you are using - not the site you want to reach via a proxy.

Abigail

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Re: Re: LWP::Simple request through a proxy by Anonymous Monk on May 25, 2004 at 10:51 UTC
Step two above is exactly what I wanted but I wasn't quite sure exactly what was required but I am now so for others for future reference: `# use proxy (comment out if not) my %proxy = ( host => 'http://proxy:8080' ); use LWP::Simple qw(mirror RC_OK RC_NOT_MODIFIED $ua); $ua->proxy(http => "$proxy{host}") if (defined $proxy{host});` [download] You can see I'm just interested in using mirror.	[reply] [d/l]
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