Use a proxy to connect to the internet.

Use a proxy to connect to the internet.

Usage

use_proxy(url, port = NULL, username = NULL, password = NULL, auth = "basic")

Arguments

url, port

location of proxy

username, password

login details for proxy, if needed

auth

type of HTTP authentication to use. Should be one of the following: basic, digest, digest_ie, gssnegotiate, ntlm, any.

See also

Other config: add_headers(), authenticate(), config(), set_cookies(), timeout(), user_agent(), verbose()

Examples

# See http://www.hidemyass.com/proxy-list for a list of public proxies
# to test with
# GET("http://had.co.nz", use_proxy("64.251.21.73", 8080), verbose())