Re: WWW::Mechanize and proxy with username/password

[tcf22]

I don't believe it is possible to authenticate to a proxy with just LWP::UserAgent. However in the WWW:Mechanize docs it says

If it's possible with LWP::UserAgent, then yes. WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent, so all the wondrous magic of that class is inherited. .

So you should be able to use the same method(using HTTP::Request) to authenticate.

Update:May also want to try using the LWP::Authen modules.

[perlhack]

Michael,
I need to authenticate with a username and password with my proxy. I think your code does not have this part which is my problem.

tcf22,
Yes I saw the comment in WWW::Mechanize about the subclass of LWP::UserAgent but if LWP::UserAgent doesn't really support the username/password part of the proxy directly then I dont know if it will work with WWW::Mechanize.

I was able to take my code and replace LWP::UserAgent with WWW::Mechanize to do a get or fetch of a web page and that worked ok. But the other "Mechanize" capabilities of WWW::Mechanize dont seem to remember or inherit or know how to pass my username and password with its requests to the web via the proxy server.

There must be a way but I cant seem to figure it out and haven't been able to find an example WWW::Mechanize script that has proxy with username/password code shown. I guess that is why I am seeking some wisdom.

Thanks.

[Corion]

At work, I have set $ENV{HTTP_PROXY} to http://login:password@proxyserver, and it magically works :

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$agent->env_proxy();
$agent->get('http://www.google.com');
print $agent->content;

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web