Re^3: Forcing LWP-UserAgent to use a proxy server without modifying code

Umph. And the next time you get a New version of LWP from CPAN? What happens to your change on line 98, then?

Hand-editing CPAN modules is a chancy proposition at best. You are setting yourself up to strange bugs in the future; and, what have you just done to the other folks using LWP::UserAgent? Suddenly their code breaks because they aren't using a proxy...? Also, is this code going to be run on other machines? Are you going to make the change to line 98 everywhere? Sigh.

I'd strongly suggest that you rethink this policy. Make a local copy of LWP::UA in your ~home directory and edit *that* if you have absolutely to. Changing the universal copy of a CPAN module -- this is just Not A Good Idea.

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Re^4: Forcing LWP-UserAgent to use a proxy server without modifying code by Massyn (Hermit) on Jan 05, 2008 at 07:59 UTC
Sure, LWP::Simple is nice and easy, and gets the job done, but there's been many cases where I've had to change to the regular LWP, just because ::Simple is, well, too simple... Take the plunge - move onto LWP.. It's a lot more flexible...	[reply]