Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can anyone point me to a good sample page w/examples for https requests with username / password? I need answers to questions like: For POST requests to servers, do all of the hidden field values need to be populated using content methods? Any info. would help, thanks.

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Re: https requests
by boo_radley (Parson) on Mar 01, 2001 at 23:19 UTC
    try using https://username:password@secure.site.com