open and curl

heiths39 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to use curl to hit Jira REST API. I don't want to feed via command line users password. So I'm trying to feed the password to curl. DOesn't seem to be working.

my $u="USERNAME";
my $p="PASSWORD";
my $key="JIRA-NUMBER";

my $tempURL="/usr/bin/curl --user $u \"http://jira.company.com/rest/ap
+i/latest/search?jql=KEY%20IN%20($key)\"";
open (INFO,"|-",  $tempURL);
sleep 1;
print INFO $p;
my @DATAIN=<INFO>;
print @DATAIN;
my $data = join("",@DATAIN);
print "What is data $data\n";
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Always returns back an Unauthorized (401). I have tried many things. I tried feeding it a "\n" to. Tried using just "| ". Tried with and without sleep. I'm just not getting what is wrong. P.S. Also it clearly is asking for the password I can see the text and it returning the text from jira.

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Re: open and curl by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 10, 2015 at 13:31 UTC
The man page for curl shows the format for the password as `-u, --user <user:password>` لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l]
Re: open and curl by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jun 10, 2015 at 17:07 UTC
Curl doesn't read the password from stdin, it opens /dev/tty and reads from that. So you'll probably need to use something like Expect. Dave.	[reply]
Re^2: open and curl by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2015 at 18:06 UTC
I only need one way communication with curl. Anyway to complete that. With out any additional modules. Process to get additional modules is long take weeks or months.	[reply]
Re^3: open and curl by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jun 10, 2015 at 19:12 UTC
In that case I guess you'll have to implement a subset of the functionality found in IO::Pty. Or use the -n option to curl and store the password in .netrc. Or use HTTP::Tiny like someone suggested above. Dave.	[reply]
Re: open and curl by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2015 at 14:41 UTC
To communicate with a sub-process bi-directionally you need at least IPC::Open2, just open is not enough (see Bidirectional Communication with Another Process for more info). You can also switch from curl to HTTP::Tiny which is in core since 2011-01-17 and supports HTTP basic authentication via URIs like `http://user:password@example.org/`.	[reply] [d/l]