Hi Perl Frieds, I am very new to perl world, i am writing a perl script to login in to page which expects username and password and after login in read the content of the next page. i have been getting the Authorisation failed message for the below code, please help the same user name and password works well in the browser Obviously i have removed username and password in the below code 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $user="";
my $pass="";
my $url="http://news.bankofamerica.com/EOS/EosDispatcher";

# define user agent
my $ua=LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->agent("USER/AGENT/IDENTIFICATION");

# make request
my $request=HTTP::Request->new(GET=>$url) or die "request failed : $!"
+;

# authenticate
$request->authorization_basic($user,$pass) or die "Authorisation faile
+d : $!";

# expect response

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

print $response->content();

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