Thanks. Your changes seemed to fix the immediate problem. I now get 

Content is HTTP/1.0 302 (Found) Object moved
Cache-Control: private
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:37:36 GMT
Via: 1.1 Dyn-EH-NetCache (NetCache NetApp/5.1R2)
Location: /index.asp
Server: Greyware Web Server
Content-Length: 131
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:40:21 GMT
Client-Peer: 208.14.208.55:80
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDGGQQGGAJ=KOMOONBBOOGGPDKDEEPCAAOI; path=/
Title: Object moved

<head><title>Object moved</title></head>
<body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This object may be found <a HREF="/index.as
+p">here</a>.</body>

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There is a good chance that with some tinkering I might be able to get this thing to work. One oddity is that the object moved message does not appear when I go to login.asp interactively and enter a password.

However, what I have now is a big improvement. I guess one lesson is to use 

req->authorization_basic('jonathanmark', 'nottherealpassword');

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instead of the credentials method.

Addendum: Finally got it to work. The trick turned out to be setting the referrer property so that the script seems to be coming from the page on which the form exists. 

use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;

use strict;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

  $ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "lwpcookies.txt",
                     autosave => 1));



for (my $i = 3543; $i < 4140; $i++) { 


# log in to authentication page.
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.sff.net/member/guestbo
+okconfigurator.asp?jonathanmark');
  
$req->authorization_basic('jonathanmark', 'nottherealpassword');

my $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
print "Login to configurator $i\n"; 


my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.sff.net/member/guestbo
+ok.asp?jonathanmark');
$req->referer("http://www.sff.net/guestbookconfigurator.asp?jonathanma
+rk"); 

$req->authorization_basic('jonathanmark', 'nottherealpassword');

my $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
print "retrieved guestbook $i\n"; 



#delete an entry
my $req = POST 'http://www.sff.net/guestbook.asp',
               Content => [
                           GuestbookName=>'jonathanmark',
                           RecordID=>"$i",
                           Button=>'Delete this Entry'
                          ];

$req->referer("http://www.sff.net/guestbook.asp?jonathanmark"); 

$req->authorization_basic('jonathanmark', 'nottherealpassword');




my $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
print "deleted $i\n"; 
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Unable to get LWP Basic Authentication to Work by sierrathedog04
in thread Unable to get LWP Basic Authentication to Work by sierrathedog04

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