Re: [PATCH] LWP::UserAgent add support for URI with embedded userinfo

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)

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 precisely what they are doing.   (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #5 (Pacific))