WWW::Mechanize with NTLM authentication

cybershot has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've searched endlessly on the web but CANNOT find NTLM support for Mechanize.
Does anyone know how to do that?

The following code gives a GETing error:


    $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new('keepalive' => 1);

    my $user = 'domain/user';
    my $pass = 'pass';

    $mech->credentials(user, pass);

    $url = "http://URL/TO/ACCESS.aspx";

    $mech ->get($url);
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Re: WWW::Mechanize with NTLM authentication by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 04, 2013 at 21:09 UTC
Is Authen::NTLM installed? WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent which is in the libwww-perl distribution. LWP::Authen::NTLM is also part of the distribution (and see the docs for that library), but it requires Authen::NTLM which is not part of the libwww-perl distribution. And according to the docs, the credentials should be more like: `$ua->credentials('www.company.com:80', '', "MyDomain\\MyUserCode", 'My +Password');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: WWW::Mechanize with NTLM authentication by cybershot (Initiate) on Sep 04, 2013 at 23:06 UTC
Authen::NTLM is installed Do I also need to `use LWP::Authen::NTLM`? I'm guessing all I need to do is import one of the two and proceed as before.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: WWW::Mechanize with NTLM authentication by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 04, 2013 at 23:12 UTC
No, if you call credentials() just like the docs say to (one thing I see is that you have 'domain/user' instead of "domain\\user"), then the libary gets imported automatically. You don't need to mention NTLM in your program.	[reply]
Re^4: WWW::Mechanize with NTLM authentication by cybershot (Initiate) on Sep 05, 2013 at 00:45 UTC
Re^5: WWW::Mechanize with NTLM authentication by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 05, 2013 at 00:48 UTC