Re: [Exist-open] Authentication and Perl

[Ulrike S. <ul...@go...>]

Michael Beddow wrote:

>I suspect the realm would be "exist" as it is for WEBDAV, but it shouldn't
>be needed (http uses it only to remind a human client of what the
>authentication domain is, machines are supposed to know already)
>
I had no luck with the credentials method of LWP::UserAgent using 
"exist" as realm.

>  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
>  my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $URL);
>  $req->content_type('text/xml');
>  $req->content($QUERY);
>  $req->authorization_basic('guest', 'guest');
>  my $res = $ua->request($req);
>
But the authorization_basic method works wonderfully, thanks a lot!

Uli