I'm trying to make my Perl script access the web at work, through a firewall. I've read the LWP stuff carefully and tried many variations, doublechecked things, etc. Here is an example:

use strict;
use warnings;
require LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ENV{HTTP_proxy_pass}='xxxxxxxx';
$ua->env_proxy();
my $URL="http://www.dlugosz.com";
my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $URL);
my $response = $ua->request($request);
print "Code: ", $response->code(), ".\n";
print "Content type: ", $response->headers()->content_type(), ".\n";
print $response->content();

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I get back content telling me to try the password again, with a code 407. I tried setting the $ENV variables within the script as shown to make sure the shell wasn't munging my characters when I put them in the environment. The username is clear. I tried variations on the proxy name, such as leaving off the http:// part, but that doesn't get as far—since I'm getting a message from the proxy, I figure that must be to its liking.

Window NT 4.0 SP6a, ActiveState Perl build 626

Anything else I should try?

—John

Edit: chipmunk 2001-05-31

In reply to LWP and proxies by John M. Dlugosz

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