Rather than using IO::Socket and connecting directly to the HTTP port, why don't you try using LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request. eg.

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
    keep_alive  =>  1
);
my $request = new HTTP::Request GET => "http://www.perlmonks.org";
$request->authorization_basic("username", "password");
my $response = $ua->request($request);
if ($response->is_success) {
    print STDOUT $response->content;
} else {
    print STDERR "Error retrieving page!\n";
};

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This combination, not only allows you to authenticate against the web server that you are retrieving the web page from, but you can also make use of proxy network configurations and exert greater control over the request and subsequent response.

 

perl -e 's&&rob@cowsnet.com.au&&&split/[@.]/&&s&.com.&_&&&print'

In reply to Re: user and pass in IO socket by rob_au
in thread user and pass in IO socket by e_macks

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