in reply to WWW::Mechanize and proxy with username/password

If what Corion suggested doesn't work, you could try this:
if ($opt_proxy) {
  my $h = "Proxy_Authorization";
  my $req = new HTTP::Request;
  $req->proxy_authorization_basic($user, $passwd);
  $WWW::Mechanize::headers{$h} = $req->header($h);
}
# Then the rest of your program

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Re: Re: WWW::Mechanize and proxy with username/password
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 26, 2003 at 19:55 UTC
    What Corion suggested does work.

    The biggest trick is how you encode names and passwords that include special characters like /, : and @. The answer is to URI encode them.

    See Put name and password in URLs for details.

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      Ok, everyone here is the latest.

      What Corion suggested did work, ie. I could put my username and password in front of the web proxy such as:
      'http://myusername:mypasswd@wwwproxy.mycompany.com:1080'

      But I also discovered some verbage at my work about making sure if using scripting and not a web browser to access the internet to make sure the username and password were base64 encoded and not just plug them in as is?

      What Thelonius suggested also worked.

      Either method seems to work and I guess the only question that remains is in either method is one any more secure than the other and if there is a way to base64 encode within these schemes.

      Does anyone know if there is anyway to actually see what headers are getting sent from the perl script?

      Thanks for all the help!

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