Nowhere in any of the examples or tutorials does it show the possibility of passing userid and password to either LWP->new or LWP::UserAgent->new. The former seems to accept no parameters, and the latter is defined as taking these options: 

KEY                     DEFAULT
   -----------             --------------------
   agent                   "libwww-perl/#.##"
   from                    undef
   conn_cache              undef
   cookie_jar              undef
   default_headers         HTTP::Headers->new
   max_size                undef
   max_redirect            7
   parse_head              1
   protocols_allowed       undef
   protocols_forbidden     undef
   requests_redirectable   ['GET', 'HEAD']
   timeout                 180

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So, you've overridden & extended new() in order to pass two parameters: userid & password.

And overridden get_basic_credentials() in order to associate those with a third parameter: realm, and maybe a fourth: url (which you pass in to get(), in order to do digest authentication.

Ain't OOP just a wonderful!

You know, it ain't like LWP was designed and implemented by some rank newbie.

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In reply to Re^8: LWP and Digest Authentication by BrowserUk
in thread LWP and Digest Authentication by BrowserUk

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