Hi there:
Is there an elegant way to get LWP::Simple to use a proxy? How can I
access the user agent $ua in the head method. It seems I should somehow be able
to tell it to use _my_ $ua and not its own. I'd like to know how. The first
lines of head look like this:
sub head ($)
{
my($url) = @_;
_init_ua() unless $ua;
so on and so forth...
I've been writing a script to automate checking every web page in our
department for stale links, so naturally I turned to the Perl Cookbook. The
program churl in chapeter 20 uses LWP::Simple's head method, but doesn't go
through our system's proxy. Using the $ua->proxy method from LWP::UserAgent
didn't work until I pasted the head method from LWP::Simple into the program.
Thanks for any insight,
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