Hi, I have a simple program which connects to a website, extracts all the titles present in the source of the page and puts it in a text file. Problem is that I am behind a proxy in college and it wont work there. The program is unable to connect to the website. Upon searching for the solution I found out that I can use the LWP::Simple module. I used it and made the environment variable also. But still its not able to connect. Below is the code. Please tell me where am I going wrong and if there is any altervative to the proxy problem other than using LWP::Simple. Thanks 
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Include the WWW::Mechanize module
use WWW::Mechanize;
use LWP::Simple;
# What URL shall we retrieve?
$url = "http://www.rediff.com/rss/inrss.xml";

# Create a new instance of WWW::Mechanize
my $mechanize = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);

# Retrieve the page
$mechanize->get($url);

my $title =$mechanize->title;
print "$title";



# Place all of the titles in an array
my @title = $mechanize->title;

open(FH, ">rediff.txt");

# Loop through and output each title
foreach my $title (@title) {

   # Retrieve the link URL
  # my $href = $link->url;

 print FH $title;
 print FH "\n";
   
   
}

close(FH);

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Thanks in advance!

In reply to Program wont connect as soon as I go behind a Proxy! by comet85

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