How do I know if a site is prompting me with basic authentication? I am attempting to use LWP to do basic authentication and for some reason it is not working. Running the the following script: 
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use strict;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = POST 'http://home.sff.net/login.asp', [ username => 'jonatha
+nmark', RecordID => 4142];
print "The netloc is" , $req->url->netloc, ". ";
$ua->credentials($req->url->netloc, "home.sff.net", 'jonathanmark', 'n
+ottherealpassword');
my$content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
print "Content is $content";

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produces the following output: 
The netloc is: home.sff.net. Content is HTTP/1.0 401 (Unauthorized) Ac
+cess Denied
Cache-Control: private
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 01:46:04 GMT
Via: 1.1 Dyn-EH-NetCache (NetCache NetApp/5.1R2)
Server: Greyware Web Server
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="home.sff.net"
Content-Length: 24
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 01:48:51 GMT
Client-Peer: 208.14.208.55:80

Error: Access is Denied.

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If anyone has any idea I would really appreciate it.

In reply to Unable to get LWP Basic Authentication to Work by sierrathedog04

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