Crypt::SSLeay HTTPS_PROXY support

Hi,

I could not get the example script from Crypt::SSLeay run successfully.
Here is the script
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# PROXY SUPPORT
 $ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = '207.154.17.141:80';
 # DEBUGGING SWITCH / LOW LEVEL SSL DIAGNOSTICS
 $ENV{HTTPS_DEBUG} = 2;


 use LWP::UserAgent;
 my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
 my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'https://www.nodeworks.com');
 my $res = $ua->request($req);
 print $res->code."\n";
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I tested the proxy server with Firefox browser. It worked fine.  I 
looked into the access log in the proxy server.  When I run the example 
script.

I got two access log entries
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- - [25/Sep/2006:20:42:23 -0400] "CONNECT www.nodeworks.com:443 
HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
- - [25/Sep/2006:20:42:24 -0400] "CONNECT 207.154.17.141:80 HTTP/1.0" 
403 298 "-" "libwww-perl/5.805"
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Notice that LWP tried to issue an CONNECT method to the proxy server 
itself. It got a 403 response for this request.  On the other hand, 
firefox did not send CONNECT method to proxy server itself.
- - [25/Sep/2006:19:33:34 -0400] "CONNECT www.nodeworks.com:443 
HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; 
rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7"
- - [25/Sep/2006:19:33:38 -0400] "CONNECT www.nodeworks.com:443 
HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; 
rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7"
- - [25/Sep/2006:19:34:32 -0400] "CONNECT www.nodeworks.com:443 
HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; 
rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7"
- - [25/Sep/2006:19:34:29 -0400] "CONNECT www.nodeworks.com:443 
HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; 
rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7"

Not sure what is trick here.  It seemed that other can get the example 
script run properly.  Can anyone give me some help on this?

Thanks

-jason