you need not have to autoclave sulphosalicylic acid and you can prepare the same in distilled water. There are few mistakes in your protocol and I have given my comments in the same with track changes. The same is attached. You may download a number of papers from our research team on various aspects of proline from my ResearchGate account. If you need further clarification or not happy with my comments, please feel free to give your comments to correct me.
You might like to see simplest and eco-friendly protocol for proline quantification that appeared online in Protoplasma (you may download the same from my ResearchGate site).