Dear Monks (I've never asked a technical question to a monk before so I don't know how to begin). I'm trying to set up a Perl module Mediawiki::API to work with a mediawiki engine protected with Basic Authentication (with Auth_remoteuser). I tried using methods credentials and "$req->authorization_basic" but I still get a 401.2 unauthorized error (meaning that I tried to login without credentials. here is an excerpt of the code I tried: 
  $self->{'agent'} = new LWP::UserAgent;
  $self->{'agent'}->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
$self->{'agent'}->credentials(
  'myserver:80',
  'mydomain',
  'myuser' => 'mypassword'
);  
  $self->{'baseurl'} = 'http://myserver/wiki/api.php';
  $self->{'loggedin'} = 'false';

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Any clue? I tried asking on wikimedia forums and they told me to ask Perl people.... Help! Thanks, Roberto.

In reply to Mediawiki::API with Basic Authentication by zantoro

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