Hello, I am trying to write a small script that logs in to a webpage that is protected with a Basic / Digest authentication. I am however unable to log in via WWW::Mechanize and LWP::UserAgent. I've tried these code examples, without avail.

1: 

my $username = "someuser";
my $password = "password";
my $url = 'http://sub.example.com:49282/navigation/nav_home.shtml';

use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
$req->authorization_basic($username,$password);
print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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2: 

## LWP!
use LWP;
use strict;

my $username = 'username';
my $password = 'password';
my $url = 'http://server:49282/subpage/nav_home.shtml';

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new('Mozilla');
$browser->credentials("server:49282","Digest realm",$username=>$passwo
+rd);
my $response=$browser->get($url);

print $response->content();

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3: 

## WWW::Mechanize
#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $username = 'username';
my $password = 'password';
my $url = 'http://server:49282/subpage/nav_home.shtml';
# Create a new instance of WWW::Mechanize
my $mechanize = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);

# Supply the necessary credentials
$mechanize->credentials("server:49282","Digest realm", $username=>$pas
+sword);
$mechanize->get($url);
# Retrieve the desired page
print $mechanize->content();

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The site I try to log in to should not have any fancy mechanics to avoid being logged into via Scripts. ANy ideas or examples of how I can log in? From what I've read up on Basic authentication, it can't authenticate until it has got the WWW-Authorization header from the server, which is what I've loaded up the correct credentials for. I've also tried to load the page, do the "reply" in terms of credentials, without success.

In reply to Basic / Digest authentication in website by TheFlyingCorpse

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