Tonight I was stumbling over authentication, trying to get through a proxy with LWP::UserAgent.
The only way I could get this working was by overriding get_basic_credentials, which seemed a bit overkill for just passing through a proxy. Upon examination, I found that get_basic_credentials just returned when encountering a proxy, not bothering to look anything up. It doesn't have a URL to lookup at that point either.
A little editing made it possible to use:
$ua->credentials('proxy', 'proxy', "username", "password" );
to set the username and password for the proxy to use, which saves hassling with overriding the function.
Therefor I propose this solution for general use, the patch is attached.
Regards,
Bas
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