I have a website which is located in the local server. Now, with browser it generally gives a prompt in form of popup for us to fill in user name and password.

Following Corion's advice. I tried to mimic the process with this following Perl script, especially with WWW::Mechanize credentials method. 
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $addr = 'http://myhost.com.sg/cgi-bin/biobase/transfac/9.4/bin/star
+t.cgi';
my $username = 'myname';
my $pwd      = 'somepassword';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get($addr);
$mech->credentials($username,$pwd);
    
my $result = $mech->content(); 
print "$result\n";

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But it gives: 
<!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>
<hr />
<address>Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at myhost.com.sg Port 80</addr
+ess>
</body></html>

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Did I use the right module and its method? How can I know what kind of cookie they are using?

So that I can know which is the right module and method to use? Because I can't seem to figure out the cookie setting
by looking at the source code of that link.

Regards,
Edward

In reply to Howto fill in username and password in a popup cookie with Perl by monkfan

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