Use proxy with perl script

Question

I want to use a proxy with this perl script but I'm not sure how to make it use a proxy.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket;
$remote = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                        Proto    => "tcp",
                        PeerAddr => "localhost",
                        PeerPort => "8080",
                    )
                  or die "cannot connect";
print $remote "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n";
    while ( <$remote> ) { print }

Answer 1

Use the LWP::UserAgent module, which has built-in proxy support.