Better solution, one that works for both http and https, and uses config options. It appears to work...
-Note that using $ua->proxy(['https'], ...); won't work, you get a "Not Implemented" error, see <http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/lwp-https-requests-proxy>.
+Note that using $ua->proxy(['https'], ...); won't work, you get a "Not Implemented" error, see <http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/lwp-https-requests-proxy>. Also see [[!debbug 129528]].
Also note that the proxy won't work with liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl, I had to remove liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl first.
-Please get the patch from the *.mdwn source.
-
+<pre>
louie:/usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin# diff -u openid.pm.old openid.pm
--- openid.pm.old 2008-10-26 12:18:58.094489360 +1100
+++ openid.pm 2008-10-26 12:40:05.763429880 +1100
# Store the secret in the session.
my $secret=$session->param("openid_secret");
if (! defined $secret) {
-
+</pre>
Brian May
+
+> Rather than adding config file settings for every useful environment
+> variable, there is a ENV config file setting that can be used to set
+> any environment variables you like. So, no changed needed. [[done]]
+> --[[Joey]]