Help with https

Hi
 
I am trying to access a secured page using the code below. The page is
accessible with firefox using the proxy at proxy.inhouse.com port 8080.
 
On doing a snoop on the data while using firefox I can see a CONNECT
being sent to the website intranet.mysecuredpage.net directed to the
proxy unencrypted  and after receiving an OK SSL handshake starts and a
client hello is being sent to the proxy. After receceiving a Server
Hello information is exchanged and the web page is received encrypted.
 
On using perl and my code below, I am not seeing the CONNECT going out.
Instead a Client Hello is immediately being sent out to the proxy from
the client running the perl code.
 
Need some advise if anybody knows about this problem.
 
Philip
 
 
 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Crypt::SSLeay;
use URI::https;
use LWP::Protocol::https;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1, timeout =>30);
$ua->proxy('https','https://proxy.inhouse.com:8080');
my $rq=HTTP::Request->new(GET => "https://intranet.mysecuredpage.net");
my $rsp=$ua->request($rq);
print $rsp->code;
print "\n";