But if you know realm and authentication mechanism, you could try to add an appropriate "Authorization:" header directly to the HTTP::Headers structure of the LWP object; don't know whether that works (i.e. whether LWP ignores that header line on the initial request and behaves standard anyways), but it could be worth a try.

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