I posted about this a few weeks ago and bart helped me to find the answer. Here's an example snippet of how to authenticate an htaccess system with WWW::Mechanize: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;


my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );

$agent->credentials( 'www.somesite.com:80', 'somerealm', 
                     'user', 'password' );

$agent->get( 'http://www.somesite.com/index.html' );

print $agent->content();

[download]

It's important to use the port number in the credentials URL. The realm is also important to get right. You can usually see it as the title of the dialog box that pops up in your browser when you visit an htaccess-restricted site.


Dave

In reply to Re^3: How to authenticate / login htaccess with WWW::Mechanize by davido
in thread Automatically fill out web forms from the command line by MistaMuShu

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