use LWP::UserAgent; { package MyUA; use vars qw(@ISA); @ISA = qw(LWP::UserAgent); my @try = (['foo', 'bar'], ['', ''], ['guest', ''], ['guest', 'guest']); sub get_basic_credentials { my($self,$realm, $uri, $proxy) = @_; print "$realm:$uri:$proxy => "; my $p = shift @try; print join("/", @$p), "\n"; return @$p; } } my $ua = MyUA->new(keep_alive => 1); my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Digest/"); my $res = $ua->request($req);