Legend - that works! Thanks a ton!

For anyone who may have the same issue, then please try:

    # if we have an @ in the URL, they will be giving us something lik
+e ftp://someone:somewhere@doamin.com .. so we need to process this ap
+propriatly..
     my $request;
     if ($url_to_get =~ /\@/) {
        my @split = split /\@/, $url_to_get; # [ftp://user:pass] @ [do
+main.com]
        # ok, lets try and get the bit after //, so we have the user/p
+ass combo...
        if ($split[0] =~ m|(.*)//(.*)|) { 
            
            my $URI = qq|$1//$split[1]|;
            
            print $IN->header;
            #print qq|Got user/pass combo of: $2 \n|;
            my ($user,$pass)  = split /\:/, $2;
            
            
            $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $URI);
            $request->authorization_basic($user, $pass);
            
            print qq|Bla, got URL of: "$URI" <br />user: $user <br />p
+ass: $pass <br /><br />|;

    
            #exit;
        }
     } else {
        $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url_to_get);
     }
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