Hi guys, I've been trying to connect to a socks proxy which requires username/password authentication. The socks proxy will be used to access some HTTP page. I found this useful perl module LWP::Protocol::socks through CPAN network but is unable to make it work for authentication. The following code with LWP::UserAgent with Basic Authentication works like charm:

$query = "http://www.google.com"; 
$proxy = "http://username:password\@proxy:port";
$ua->proxy('http',$proxy);
$response = $ua->get($query);
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However when i try to do the same thing with socks proxy

$query = "http://www.google.com"; 
$proxy = "socks://username:password\@proxy:port";
$ua->proxy('http',$proxy);
$response = $ua->get($query);
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It gives me error 500 Can't connect to www.google.com:80 (Timeout) Anyone has any idea ? Thanks in advance.