Ok, 2 questions to annoy the advanced perl monk.

1)Anyone know why a "clicked" link from a site using "https" is not showing up in the $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} variable?
(eg. https://perl.com -users clicks on hyperlink to http://perlmonkks.org but sends no REFERER Variable)

2)Does anyone know a way of using LWP, HTTP::REQUEST, Basic credentials to obtain a web page if its using "https"? I want to check mail setting the URL and "credentials" and send it to my screen but, the URL is "https://"



This is sample code for question 2.

#!/usr/bin/perl
  
use LWP;
use HTTP::Headers;
$myurl = "https://www.somewhereoutthereusinghttps.com/blah";
$h = new HTTP::Headers(Referer => $myurl);
  
  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

  my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET, $myurl, $h);
$req->authorization_basic('what', 'password');

  my $response = $ua->request($req);

  print $response->headers_as_string;
 print "\n";
   print $response->content;
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It seems to either give an error or the screen is blank