On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:37:09AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > > Apparently I was completely mistaken, since further testing with Mechanize > this morning shows that indeed it will already work with such URLs. > > I may have been mislead by the fact the URL I was trying to reach was also > https and maybe Crypt::SSLeay wasn't installed with the perl I was using. >
Actually, the issue was a bit more complicated (a VPN that my usual browser bypasses through a tunnel and a SOCKS proxy). But testing would have make it clear. :-/ Now installing LWP::Protocol::socks. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Few things in life are so dependable as the incompetence of those who know precisely what they are doing. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #5 (Pacific))