The lines are (with some padding, 51-56): 

$md5->add($request->content);
my $content = $md5->hexdigest;
$md5->reset;
$md5->add(join(":", @digest[0..1], $content));
$md5->reset;
$resp{"message-digest"} = $md5->hexdigest;

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It seems to me that in line 56 the value stored in that hash is not a MD5 digest of a message, but only the md5 of the empty string.

And this is the resulting HTTP-Authorize:-header:
Authorization: Digest username="someuser", realm="myrealm.de", qop="auth", algorithm="MD5", uri="/look_here", nonce="437ef90b37d69", nc="00000001", cnonce="46c650f4", response="f5b2ba3476fed859942ed823776710da", message-digest="d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"
The message-digest has indeed the MD5 value of an empty string.

I think one could just comment out line 55. But when I tried that I still got a 401 (Authorization Required) from the server.

When I finally used a localhost proxy and filtered out both message-digest and algorithm from the header I was finally admitted to the realm. Would that be an error on the server side?

In reply to What's going on in LWP::Authen::Digest, lines 53-55? by ceeker

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