"B. Duffee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>       Is there an elegant way to get LWP::Simple to use a proxy?

You set the 'http_proxy' environment variable...

> 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.

...or you can set up the $ua explicitly like this.

   use LWP::Simple qw(head $ua);
   $ua->proxy(...);

   if (head("http://www.perl.com")) {
      ....
   }

If you do this then you should consider using the full OO-interface
instead.


Regards,
Gisle

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