Hi guys, I need a suggestion from someone experience. I wrote a Perl script that one of the actions does a GET request but you need to provide username and password for that.
The trivial option is to just ask the user for that in runtime, but in that way, the script will not be automatic.
The other idea I had was to use our faceless user to do the GET request but by doing that way you'll need to keep the username and the password hardcoded, also bad idea.
The third idea I had was to use a config file which will contain the username and the password, but that will require additional step and then users will be frightened to keep their password in a file, so it is not so good idea.
I'm looking for a way of somehow performing that GET request. I also the owner of the server-side of the site (written in JS), so I could do changes there too, but not sure which (we want to keep the username-password check).
Thank you.

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