I like to connect to a website over a proxy, using the LWP::UserAgent. So I write this little script 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use LWP::UserAgent;

#Tried this notation
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = 'http://115.238.164.208:8080';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

#Also tried this notation
#$ua->env_proxy( );
#$ua->proxy(['https'], 'http://115.238.164.208:8080');

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://google.de');
my $res = $ua->request($req);

if($res->is_success)
{
    print "Proxy works fine\n";
    #print $res->decoded_content;
}
else
{
    print "Proxy dont work\n";
}

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The Problem I have is that I can change the Proxy IP Adress to something silly like http://blabla.com and it work too. Did I do something wrong? If not is there a way to tell the UserAgent only go over the proxy

In reply to Issue with LWP:UserAgent use Proxy by Drizzt

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