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Does anyone know how to Automate HTTP User Authentication with a PERL client? Has anyone done this? I am pushing the envelope to my abilities with perl and need to finishe a project.

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Re: WWW-Authenticate
by trantor (Chaplain) on Aug 10, 2001 at 01:29 UTC

    Have a look at LPW::Authen::Basic

    A simple snippet, taken from lwpcook manpage (perldoc lwpcook): 

             use LWP::UserAgent;
         $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
         $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.linpro.no/secret
+/');
         $req->authorization_basic('aas', 'mypassword');
         print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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