WebGUI FAQ: My Intranet is behind a proxy server. How do I use Syndicated Content behind a proxy server?

Troubleshooting :
My Intranet is behind a proxy server. How do I use Syndicated Content behind a proxy server?

Version: 6.5+, but perhaps others might benefit:
There is a line (6.5.5's line number is 205) in WebGUI/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm that looks like:

 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(timeout => 5);

Immediately after that, you can put a line like this:

 $ua->proxy(['http', 'ftp'], 'http://proxy:port');

 $ua->env_proxy;

You may consider this in HttpProxy.pm. HOWEVER, HttpProxy.pm does kindly include

 $useragent->env_proxy;

which means that it will observe environment variables that end with _proxy:

 http_proxy="http://proxy:port"
 ftp_proxy="ftp://proxy:port"
 no_proxy="localhost,my.domain"

More info: http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.803/lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm#Proxy_attributes
Of course, changes to .pm might mean that you should stop and restart apache.
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