Perl Mechanize throwing connection error while using proxy

Question

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?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '13 at 15:31

2

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

answered Jul 10 '13 at 15:31

user1126070

5,059
1
16
15

thanks for your reply. I am working on windows 7. I have installed telnet client in windows to check the connection. I am not able to connect and the error message is as below "Connecting To www.google.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 80 : Connect failed" – Fla-Hyd Jul 10 '13 at 16:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 02:49

0

You need to specify you proxy to the $mech:

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

answered Jul 11 '13 at 02:49

gangabass

10,607
2
23
35

Perl Mechanize throwing connection error while using proxy

2 Answers2