David good had trouble with a proxy server so set about making wwwis use the LWP modules to fetch the images from servers. Here's his email:-
I downloaded WWWis yesterday, but it didn't seem to work with our proxy server. I have worked a tiny bit with the LWP modules and knew that its proxy stuff worked with our server, so I tried replacing your HTTP code with calls to LWP. Attached is a unified diff of what I came up with. LWP unfortunately does not provide an interface where you can get a filehandle on the results of a "GET", so I had to have it write the results to a temp file and then open the file to pass to the various *size routines. I also have it check the content type (rather than simply looking at the ".gif" at the end of URLs) to determine which routine to call (I use a hit counter CGI program on some of my pages and wanted WWWis to work on them, too but the URL didn't end in ".gif"). Enjoy!
Sure. It's not as clean as I'd really like (with the tempfile and all) but someone might find it useful...
This is available as A Patch or Patched v2.22
I cannot support this in any way. I'll be spending my time trying to get my version working correctly