Why cant I connect through a proxy using perl?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Well, I had in mind to let my program connect to a server through a proxy.

For this, I'm using LWP::UserAgent. Though my problem is that regardless of what proxy I use, I cant connect out. If I "remove" the proxy, everything works fine, but not with it.

I believe the problem has something to do with the "no_proxy" definition.

$ua->proxy('http', 'http://my.proxy.com:80/');
$ua->no_proxy('proxy.com');
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Anyone have any idea of what Im doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Edited by footpad, ~Sun Nov 25 04:28:22 2001 (GMT)

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Re: Why cant I connect through a proxy using perl? by IlyaM (Parson) on Nov 25, 2001 at 07:11 UTC
I don't know what the reason of your problem but often turning on debug trace in LWP helps to debug problems with LWP. Try to add `use LWP::Debug qw(+);` [download] into you program and see what happens when it tryes to talk with proxy. See LWP::Debug docs for more info about LWP debug tracing.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Why cant I connect through a proxy using perl? by redbrick (Initiate) on May 14, 2002 at 19:25 UTC
Mmm... I am also new to this stuff, but while I was wandering around hacking deluge (a web stress tool http://deluge.sourceforge.net), I found the following code: `$ua->env_proxy();` [download] where `$ua` is an instance of `UserAgent`. And in the `UserAgent` pod, I found that this command imports proxy settings from the following enviroment vars: `http_proxy` and `ftp_proxy`. Hope that this works for you.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Why cant I connect through a proxy using perl? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 04, 2001 at 01:43 UTC
Hm, why did I post the same question thrice? Sorry Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]

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