I'm not sure why you think that ftp is relevant to the problem at hand.
Personally, I would look with a network sniffer like Wireshark at what (or whether) network traffic leaves the machine, and whether it tries to use the proxy or not.
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Ftp - just to see that I can get to the outside world from the shell, not just the browser.
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That's weird, as you seem to want to set up a proxy, and http doesn't seem to work without the proxy either. Maybe you need to authenticate to the proxy or something. But this seems to be largely a network problem unrelated to Perl, as wget has the same problem and is not a Perl program. Consult with your network administrator as to which configuration is needed and what relevant data must be sent where.
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