Hi, I have a script that has been working for some web pages require digest authentication. However, I just came across a new webpage that it fails to work. The script is as shown below. The realm is "ty3.asia.dummy.com:8096" which contains ":". At first I suspect this breaks the code but after reading how Digest uses MD5, it doesn't seem to be the root cause. Appreciate if anyone can shred some light on this. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use strict;

use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI;

my $username="admin";
my $password="admin";
my $realm = "ty3.asia.dummy.com:8096";

my $url=qw(http://ty3.asia.dummy.com:8096/application);

my $u = URI->new($url);
my $host = $u->host;
my $port = $u->port;
my $hostport = "$host:$port";

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);
$ua->credentials($hostport,$realm,$username,$password);

my $response = $ua->get($url);
my $content = $response->content;
print "$content";

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The Wireshark header traffic capture of the problematic webpage is as shown below. Keep-live is gone in the "Connection" field of the second GET message. How to add it back?

GET /application HTTP/1.1
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: Keep-Alive, TE
Host: ty3.asia.dummy.com:8096
User-Agent: libwww-perl/6.04


HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Pragma: No-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 09:00:00 JST
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="ty3.asia.dummy.com:8096", qop="auth", 
+nonce="d7757e011940461afd9baf04d54b0858", opaque="481c532d006d5dfa105
+44ae8b0adbed2"
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 954
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:44:49 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1


GET /application HTTP/1.1
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: TE
Authorization: Digest username="admin", realm="ty3.asia.dummy.com:8096
+", qop="auth", algorithm="MD5", uri="/application", nonce="d7757e0119
+40461afd9baf04d54b0858", nc="00000001", cnonce="4f8e38b1", response="
+b9d9cf87cb315f82b8bbd0cf4d68d175", opaque="481c532d006d5dfa10544ae8b0
+adbed2"
Host: jty3.asia.dummy.com:8096
User-Agent: libwww-perl/6.04


HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Pragma: No-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 09:00:00 JST
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="ty3.asia.dummy.com:8096", qop="auth", 
+nonce="d5dfe8c5a4f563bdbafdfe6fe1a29118", opaque="dfb683538f7c122c0c6
+1181a52919473"
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 954
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:44:49 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

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In reply to LWP not working with digest authentication by sophate

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