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Fla-Hyd
Fla-Hyd

Reputation: 277

Perl Mechanize throwing connection error while using proxy

I am trying to download pdf files present in a website using perl MECHANIZE module. It worked fine when i am running the program without any proxy connection. But i am getting the below error when i tried to run the program on the company server which uses proxy connection.

error:

Error GETing http://www.google.com: Can't connect to www.google.com:80 (10060) a t Download.pl line 20.

I am not sure if i need to add any proxy details in the program or Is this something that our company firewall is blocking programatical requests to a website ? I have tried a lot but coudn't find out. Can any one of you please suggest?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 376

Answers (2)

gangabass
gangabass

Reputation: 10666

You need to specify you proxy to the $mech:

 $mech->proxy(['http'], 'http://proxy_address:proxy_port/');

Upvotes: 0

user1126070
user1126070

Reputation: 5069

If you using some kind of LWP related module you could set the following shell variables

HTTP_PROXY=your.corp.proxy:your_proxy_port

You could check the connection with telnet or with wget

telnet www.google.com 80

with wget

wget http://www.google.com

Upvotes: 2

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