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I'm having problems connecting to MySQL through Perl for some data management of a small program I'm building. I'm a begginer at this, so I've been reading all the tutorials on databases in the tutorials section. Since I'm all newbie there are a lot of things I don't understand, but I have managed this far somehow. But now I'm dealing with two things I don't know much about, Perl and MySQL...and I'm stuck. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to connect to the MySQL server. For this, I was trying to use the example in stephen's Reading from a database tutorial. However, I keep getting an error I don't quite understand.
So, here's the deal: I'm running on Windows 2000 Pro, MySQL Server 4.1 with MySQL administrator 1.0 and ActivePerl 5.8.

My code goes like this for the connection part:
use strict;
use DBI;


my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:ligas','perlclient','todito')
    or die "Couldn't open database: $DBI::errstr; stopped";

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Well, the database is ligas, and the user 'perlclient' with password 'todito' were created in Administrator, with the proper priviledges over database ligas, which has its respective tables.
The error I get from that is this:
DBI connect('ligas','perlclient',...) failed: Client does not support 
+authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL
+ client at pruebadbi.pl line8
Couldn't open database: Client foes not support authentication protoco
+l requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client; stopped at pr
+uebadbi.pl line 8.

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So, I'm really lost here, any pointers I can get about the nature of this error or how to fix it would be great. Thanks!!

In reply to Problems interacting with MySQL on Windows by Deib

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