LWP::Simple request through a proxy

[freak]

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[Abigail-II]

Your code isn't doing an LWP::Simple request. It's doing its request through LWP::UserAgent (LWP::Simple will use LWP::UserAgent itself as well). Do one to three things:
• Forget about LWP::Simple. You seem to cope with LWP::UserAgent fine.
• Use LWP::Simple, and have it export $ua. Set up the proxy through $au, as in your code (But the method above is just as easy).
• Either use LWP::UserAgent or LWP::Simple as described above, and setup the proxy using environment variables and a call to $au -> env_proxy.
Futher note that the second argument of the proxy method must be the proxy you are using - not the site you want to reach via a proxy.

Abigail

[Anonymous Monk]

Step two above is exactly what I wanted but I wasn't quite sure exactly what was required but I am now so for others for future reference:

   # use proxy (comment out if not)
   my %proxy = ( host => 'http://proxy:8080' );

   use LWP::Simple qw(mirror RC_OK RC_NOT_MODIFIED $ua);

   $ua->proxy(http => "$proxy{host}") if (defined $proxy{host});

You can see I'm just interested in using mirror.

[dave_the_m]

Well, the code looks plausible, except that the value in $x should be the URL of the proxy server, while the argument to get() should be the URL of the site you want to get from.