On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:41:22AM +0000, JUANMARCOSMOREN wrote:
> Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > Is there any reason not to normalize the hostname used for looking up
> > credentials, as passed to UserAgent->credentials?
> >
> > It would also be terribly useful to allow undef as a wildcard.
> > Actually, I seem to remember reading some discussion about how to
> > generalize ->credentials. What's the current thinking?
>
> I don't understand what are you trying to do.
> What's MSIE/Mozilla doing in the same scenario?
> Is it also normalizing the hostname?
It's only a matter of normalizing within LWP's own credentials table.
So if I say
$ua->credentials('example.com:80', ...);
and later do
$ua->get('http://EXAMPLE.COM/'):
the credentials get used.
Andrew
