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fglock: Isn't that method a security breach? Your pass is provided as text to anyone who can access the URL you called.
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Re^2: passing Apache Basic Auth. creditial with WWW::Mechanize?
by fglock (Vicar) on Nov 22, 2004 at 15:43 UTC

    Other people who are simply browsing the same URL can't see it.
    However, the password is "plain" in the script and in the network packets.

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