Indignation, Indigestion... Same thing I suppose. =) At least you knew I was joke-y in tone. Honestly, though, every system is fairly different but you should be able to snag the Auth stuff from LWP (HTTP::Request) if you want to auth remotely against a website.
Gah, you tricked me into answering... ahhhh!
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