use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Response;


#trying to retrieve a dynamically assigned IP address

$url = 'HTTP://192.168.1.1/Status.htm';
$passwd = 'AnyPa223d';
$user = 'T1isUserok';

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "$url" );

#when these values are hardcoded the autorization is ok 
$req->authorization_basic('T1isUserok','AnyPa223d');

#when I use these same values as parms this same code fails

 $req->authorization_basic($user,$passwd);

##continue

$req->header('Accept', => 'text/html');

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


print $response->content;


exit 0;
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