Question

I found a neat Ruby script to sum all purchases done on Amazon.de (no other stores like US) for a given year:
https://github.com/pwaldhauer/amazon-account-crawler

After installing Ruby and the necessary Ruby Gems Highline and Mechanize I’m able to run the script. But unfortunately I’m behind a proxy server so the script fails with a “Timeout” error.

I read a lot but didn’t found out how to use a proxy server. I tried to “set” a HTTP_PROXY environment variable, but still get errors. I also used the following call:

agent.set_proxy('127.0.0.1', '3128')

But this didn’t worked out as well. I have the feeling that the HTTP proxy worked but after the login Amazon uses HTTPS and this fails.
Can someone tell me a simple way how to tell Mechanize to use a HTTP and HTTPS proxy server?

Answer 1

There is a known issue with mechanize https and proxies, you will need to use an older version (1.0.0) to get it to work. Also the port should be a number not a string.