Friends,

I am trying to write a script that will allow me to access a webpage that is protected with Apache Basic Authentication, but I don't know how to pass the username and password to the server from my script: 

$ cat wwwPerl.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $url = "http://localhost/testauth/testauth.html";

$mech->get( $url );

print $mech->content();

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Here's what happpens when I run it 
$ ./wwwPerl.pl 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>401 Authorization Required</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Authorization Required</h1>
<p>This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested.  Either you supplied the wrong
credentials (e.g., bad password), or your
browser doesn't understand how to supply
the credentials required.</p>
</body></html>

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I know I could use expect, but I don't fell like having to install Tcl right now. I know that WWW::Mechanize::Shell has an auth method. But I would want to automate things later on. Is there a way to automate WWW::Mechanize::Shell? Hmm...

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In reply to passing Apache Basic Auth. creditial with WWW::Mechanize? by Plankton

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