Perl and Apache Authentication

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

I am wondering if there is a way to allow a script to authenticate it self to a site which is protected with Apache Authentication. Not sure if Mechanize would work for this so any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated

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Re: Perl and Apache Authentication by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 15, 2014 at 17:09 UTC
What is "Apache Authentication"? Have you looked at what WWW::Mechanize has to say about HTTP Authentication?	[reply]
Re^2: Perl and Apache Authentication by edimusrex (Monk) on Jul 15, 2014 at 19:59 UTC
The http authentication portion of Mechanize worked like a charm. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction	[reply]
Re^2: Perl and Apache Authentication by edimusrex (Monk) on Jul 15, 2014 at 17:13 UTC
Ahh, I didn't see that. I will definitely try it. Thanks	[reply]
Re: Perl and Apache Authentication by perlfan (Parson) on Jul 16, 2014 at 17:56 UTC
Not advisable, but you can send HTTP Basic Authentication credentials as part of the URL: `http://username:password@log.me.in/protected` You can also send it via a header as illustrated here. Again, neither method is recommended - the first worse than the latter (at least over https).	[reply] [d/l]