How to make LWP::Simple use a proxy?

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Re: How to make LWP::Simple use a proxy? by sgifford (Prior) on May 04, 2004 at 16:35 UTC
This is in the documentation for LWP::Simple: The user agent created by this module will identify itself as "LWP::Simple/#.##" (where "#.##" is the libwww-perl version number) and will initialize its proxy defaults from the environment (by calling $ua->env_proxy). and for LWP::UserEgent: `$ua->env_proxy` Load proxy settings from *_proxy environment variables. You might specify proxies like this (sh-syntax): gopher_proxy=http://proxy.my.place/ wais_proxy=http://proxy.my.place/ no_proxy="localhost,my.domain" export gopher_proxy wais_proxy no_proxy csh or tcsh users should use the "setenv" command to define these environment variables. On systems with case insensitive environment variables there exists a name clash between the CGI environment variables and the "HTTP_PROXY" environment variable normally picked up by env_proxy(). Because of this "HTTP_PROXY" is not honored for CGI scripts. The "CGI_HTTP_PROXY" environment variable can be used instead. So you should be able to simply set the appropriate environment variables.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to make LWP::Simple use a proxy? by Tomte (Priest) on May 04, 2004 at 16:37 UTC
From the pod of LWP::Simple : The user agent created by this module will identify itself as "LWP::Simple/#.##" (where "#.##" is the libwww-perl version number) and will initialize its proxy defaults from the environment (by calling $ua->env_proxy). And accordingly looked up in the pod of LWP::UserAgent (emphasis again mine): Load proxy settings from *_proxy environment variables. You might specify proxies like this (sh-syntax): gopher_proxy=http://proxy.my.place/ wais_proxy=http://proxy.my.place/ no_proxy="localhost,my.domain" export gopher_proxy wais_proxy no_proxy csh or tcsh users should use the "setenv" command to define these environment variables. On systems with case insensitive environment variables there exists a name clash between the CGI environment variables and the "HTTP_PROXY" environment variable normally picked up by env_proxy(). Because of this "HTTP_PROXY" is not honored for CGI scripts. The "CGI_HTTP_PROXY" environment variable can be used instead. So just set up the environment accordingly, and LWP::Simple DWYM. regards, tomte An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus	[reply]
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Re: How to make LWP::Simple use a proxy? by eXile (Priest) on May 04, 2004 at 16:37 UTC
From the LWP::Simple manpage: `The user agent created by this module will identify itself as "LWP::Simple/#.##" (where "#.##" is the libwww-perl version number) an +d will initialize its proxy defaults from the environment (by calling $ua->env_proxy).` [download] I think they mean the `HTTP_PROXY` environment-variable, so in your script you could set something like: `$ENV{'HTTP_PROXY'}='http://proxy:3128/';` [download] before you create the user agent.	[reply] [d/l] [select]