Re: HELP: HTTP proxy authentication

Doug Monroe (monroe@lucent.com)
Thu, 20 May 1999 08:26:34 -0400


Aaron Aw wrote:
> 
> Hi! I'm in dire need of a solution for my Perl code to retrieve a webpage
> through a user-authenticated Netscape proxy. Could someone please show me
> how or perhaps a code snippet on how this is done?

Try 'perldoc lwpcook'
and you'll find:
 $req->proxy_authorization_basic("proxy_user", "proxy_password");

> Besides that also, how can we handle the normal website user authentication
> together with the http proxy authentication?

from same doc:
 $req->authorization_basic('username', 'password');

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Doug Monroe
Lucent Technologies