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in thread LWP::UserAgent Authentication

Alternatively try to access the page with a regular browser. If it pops up with a 'standard' username/password box then make a note of the realm and insert that into your credentials method as the second argument. You may be dealing with a server that requires regular digest authentication.
Popup will have something like this: 
Enter username and password for "realmname_here" at http://...

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Update: btw make sure to append the portnumber (:80) to your fully qualified hostname in argument one, otherwise authentication can fail even with correct credentials.

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Re^4: LWP::UserAgent Authentication
by palladinob (Novice) on Mar 20, 2007 at 18:46 UTC
    I tried all different strings for the realm. None of them worked. It doesn't specify the realm when it asks for the password. The word 'realm' doesn't even appear in a Sniffer trace. That's why I expected my sample code to work - it by-passes the credentials/realm problem and returns with the correct username/password. I also made sure I included the port number - 80. That was spelled out on one of the web sites: www.tutorials-blog.com/perl/LWPUserAgent-credentials/.
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      The response headers will give away more clues about required authentication, try to insert this into your code: 
      $response = $ua->request(   <-- your details go here
my @headers = $response->header_field_names();
foreach my $h (@headers) {
    print "$h = ",$response->header($h),"\n";
    }

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      In particular investigate the output for the WWW-Authenticate header.
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