I'm working on migrating a .htaccess password file from base64 to md5. I am re-storing all the passwords in md5 format using the htdigest command. However, the server has may scripts that are used to verify the passwords contained in the file (mostly using the pack function). I now need to write something to encode a password from an html form in md5. I've initially tried Digest::MD5 
use strict;
use Digest::MD5;

my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new();
$md5->add('mypass');
my $digest = $md5->hexdigest;

print $digest, "\n";
print "977f6d9e19594bd58e68030e029cbb3c\n";

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This doesn't seem to work quite right. The results are: 
a029d0df84eb5549c641e04a9ef389e5
977f6d9e19594bd58e68030e029cbb3c

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The output from htdigest and Digest::MD5 don't quite match. I have considered making a system call to htdigest and parsing the results, but would prefer to use a perl routine. Can someone offer any help? Thanks.

In reply to Digest::MD5 question by Anonymous Monk

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