in reply to Re^9: LWP and Digest Authentication
in thread LWP and Digest Authentication

You don't find that having to

  1. Add a sub class to a class;
  2. Overide the constructor and add two instance variables; so that you can:
  3. Override a method and supply those two strings to the base class;

An obscure and convoluted way of achieving the goal of passing a couple of parameters?

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Re^11: LWP and Digest Authentication
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 11, 2009 at 19:52 UTC

    The goal isn't to pass a couple of parameters. If you view it as parameters, there are 5 (user and password for realm on port of host).

    But more accurately, you want to override the auth mechanism in order to provide your own rules. A pluggable auth system or maybe just a callback would make more sense, but the work required would be similar.

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