I had the same problem once...
Set the debug on, you'll see what is wrong. It's probably a wrong realm like
Michael is saying.
"Michael A. Chase" wrote:
> I'm not an expert, but I believe the username and password aren't sent
> except to answer a 401 or 407 response from the server.
>
> The realm you give in credentials() has to match the WWW-Authenticate header
> included in the 401 response or the Proxy-Authenticate header in a 407
> response. Try fetching the page with lwp-request (without using the -C
> option) to see what realm is given by the site.
>
> Look for 'authenticate' and 'authorization' in the output from 'perldoc
> HTTP::Headers'. 'ACCESS TO PROTECTED DOCUMENTS' in lwpcook.pod might also
> help.
>
> --
> Mac :})
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aaron Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 0:38
> Subject: Getting documents that are protected by basic auth
>
> > I'm going nuts. I've read all the online docs, and found some books, but
> > for the life of me I can't get a password protected doc. I put a sniffer
> > on the link, and found that the script isn't even sending the auth info to
> > the server at all. Here's the code which tries to print out the page:
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > use LWP::UserAgent;
> > use HTTP::Request;
> > use HTTP::Response;
> > use strict;
> > my $passwd = 'myname';
> > my $uname = 'mypass';
> > my $domain = 'My Realm Name';
> > my $agent = 'linuxkb-modperl';
> > my $url = 'http://devel.linuxkb.org/todo.html';
> >
> > my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
> > $ua->agent($agent);
> > $ua->credentials($url, $domain, $uname, $passwd);
> >
> > my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
> > $request->referer("http://localhost/");
> >
> > my $response = $ua->request($request);
> > print $response->content;
> >
> > What is wrong??? Why will it send the referrer and agent info, but not
> > the http-auth info?
--
Frederic Hurtubise (from home) - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"After going to the effort of making the error and warning messages be
more helpful, it still amazes me how people don't take in what they say."
- Tim Bunce, author of DBI, July 1999
