Marvin Simkin wrote:
>
> Edwin, if your proxy server is like mine what it wants is a header like this
> on your request:
>
> Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
>
> The gobbledegook is a base-64 encoded rendition of your proxy id:password,
> that is, they are separated by a colon and then encoded.
>
> I think LWP should have a way to do this built in... I've seen others talking
> about it. Apparently there is a document called the LWP cookbook
exactly- 'perldoc lwpcook' shows:
$req->proxy_authorization_basic("proxy_user", "proxy_password");
so:
$req->proxy_authorization_basic("Alladin", "open sesame");
oughta do it.
--
Doug Monroe
