Hi Monks, I wonder if anyone can help me?. I've got a problem getting connections to a MySQL database. Basically I developed the code on my machine at home before uploading it to the web hosting company. Everything worked fine at home but at the host company my connections to MySQL stopped working with the

Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

error. A quick search of the internet later and everyone said it was problem to do with MySQL hashing algorithm changing (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/old-client.html). The main suggestion (other than upgrading the client) is to use the old_password function. My ISP does not give me permission to run this so I can't use this work around. Before I pinged an email to the ISP I thought I'd just check the DBI and DBD versions on both sides. Bizarrely the ones at the ISP were more up-to-date than mine?
To recap,

This works..
DBI Version 1.38
DBD Version 2.9007

This doesn't ..
DBI Version 1.50
DBD Version 3.0002


I'm connecting my home code directly to the MySQL database at the ISP so all tests are running against the same MySQL database (Version 4.1.14). Example code.. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use DBD::mysql;

print q(Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

);
print "DBI Version=" . $DBI::VERSION;
print "<BR>DBD Version=" . $DBD::mysql::VERSION;

$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:<DATABASE NAME>:localhost","<USERNAME>"
+,"<PASSWORD>")
 or print "<BR>Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;

$query=q{select user()};

$sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
$sth->execute();
my $user_info;
$sth->bind_columns(\$user_info);
$sth->fetch();
print "<BR> User connected to MySql: $user_info";

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Does anyone have any ideas?

In reply to MySQL DBI Woe by fruitbeeriswrong

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