Perl script to change the proxy settings of Google chrome

[ambidexter]

Hi Monks, Am using this perl script to open a Google Chrome Web Browser in Windows 7. But how to change the proxy settings of Google Chrome from perl script

sub open_default_browser {
  my $url = shift;
  my $platform = $^O;
  my $cmd;
  if ($platform eq 'MSWin32') { $cmd = "start $url";             } # W
+in95..Win7
  if (defined $cmd) {
    system($cmd);
  } else {
    die "Can't locate default browser";
  }
}

open_default_browser("http://www.gmail.com/");

[dasgar]

I haven't looked into setting web proxy settings for a specific browser, but you might want to check out the netsh command's winhttp context commands to set the proxy setting for the entire Windows OS. This will affect all of your web browsers that you have installed. If that accomplishes what you want as far as proxy settings go, you can then have your Perl code make a system call to run the netsh command.

[ambidexter]

Yes dasgar,

Currently i have this as a work around (using set proxy). But specifically i need to change only Chrome's proxy settings. However i had a look at the link posted by "rovf" but i didn't get anything that suits my criteria. Anyway i'll pass on this for now.

[Anonymous Monk]

What APIs does "Google chrome" expose/make available for modifying proxy settings?

Win32::GuiTest or X11::GUITest can be pita

[rovf]

Since you are on Win, changing the proxy settings for Chrome ONLY will be difficult: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96815?hl=en

Contrary to this official answer by Google, another (inofficial) page *does* list the possibility of using a command line switch when starting Chrome, so this is something you could try: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/