Net::Proxy::Connector::connect(3)

NAME
Net::Proxy::Connector::connect - Create CONNECT tunnels through HTTP proxies

SYNOPSIS
    # sample proxy using Net::Proxy::Connector::tcp
    #                and Net::Proxy::Connector::connect
    use Net::Proxy;

    # listen on localhost:6789
    # and proxy to remotehost:9876 through proxy.company.com:8080
    # using the given credentials
    my $proxy = Net::Proxy->new(
        in  => { type => 'tcp', port => '6789' },
        out => {
            type        => 'connect',
            host        => 'remotehost',
            port        => '9876',
            proxy_host  => 'proxy.company.com',
            proxy_port  => '8080',
            proxy_user  => 'jrandom',
            proxy_pass  => 's3kr3t',
            proxy_agent => 'Mozilla/4.04 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m)',
        },
    );
    $proxy->register();

    Net::Proxy->mainloop();

DESCRIPTION
"Net::Proxy::Connecter::connect" is a "Net::Proxy::Connector" that uses the HTTP CONNECT method to ask the proxy to create a tunnel to an outside server.

Be aware that some proxies are set up to deny the creation of some outside tunnels (either to ports other than 443 or outside a specified set of outside hosts).

This connector is only an "out" connector.

CONNECTOR OPTIONS
"Net::Proxy::Connector::connect" accepts the following options:

"out"

•   host

    The destination host.

•   port

    The destination port.

•   proxy_host

    The web proxy name or address.

•   proxy_port

    The web proxy port.

•   proxy_user

    The authentication username for the proxy.

•   proxy_pass

    The authentication password for the proxy.

•   proxy_agent

    The user-agent string to use when connecting to the proxy.

AUTHOR
Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, "<book@cpan.org>".

BUGS
All the authentication schemes supported by "LWP::UserAgent" should be supported (we use an "LWP::UserAgent" internally to contact the proxy).

This means we should also support NTLM, since it is supported as from "libwww-perl" 5.66. "Net::Proxy::Connector::connect" has not been actually tested with NTLM, though. Any report of success or failure with a NTLM proxy will be appreciated.

HISTORY
This module is based on my script "connect-tunnel", that provided a command-line interface to create tunnels though HTTP proxies. It was first published on CPAN on March 2003.

A better version of "connect-tunnel" (using "Net::Proxy") is provided this distribution.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2006 Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat, All Rights Reserved.

LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.