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  • Hi! I'm the author of HTTP::Proxy. :-) Glad you like it.

    I don't think you need to define your own agent to log information. In fact, I think I should never have opened the opportunity to set your own agent. You could simply use a response filter that catches the title tag and print it in you log file.

    I also don't understand your while(1) loop. The $proxy->start() is already a while(1) loop.

    And you say that the proxy doesn't fork? That probably means you're running it under Win32, don't you? Alas, the forking code doesn't work very well under Windows. Also, maybe the documentation doesn't state this clearly, but you can change the engine (HTTP::Proxy::Engine subclass) by passing the engine parameter to the constructor. On Unix, I use the ScoreBoard engine. This way: my $proxy = HTTP::Proxy->new( engine => 'ScoreBoard' );

    Regarding images in Internet Explorer, I'm not sure what's going on. I know for sure that HTTP::Proxy doesn't support pipelined requests (because that's what apt-get does, and it fails for the moment).

    As for SSL connections, HTTP::Proxy supports the CONNECT method, but cannot look inside.

    • Thank you very much for your comments! Yeah, it's odd not to use the filter mechanism. Filters make things simpler.

      I'm so glad to receive feedback from you, the very author of HTTP::Proxy. :=)
    • Heeeeeeeello, I'm new to HTTP::Proxy and I was wondering if anyone if anyone could debug the following code for me... The script is written to display all actions performed while I'm browsing on the Cmd Prompt of Windows (since logfh is default to be *STDERR). use HTTP::Proxy; use HTTP::Recorder; my $proxy = HTTP::Proxy->new(logmask => ALL); $proxy->start(); For some reason, no messages are displayed even though I'm browsing like crazy. Is there anything I missed? Thanks
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