MD5 authentication with perl

[suresh]

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[dingus]

I'm guessing what you want is for a perl implementation of RFC2617's Digest Access Authentication.

I'm not aware of a server impementation - though its vaguely possible that some varient of HTTP::Daemon can support this. And LWP only supports Basic Authentication for the client.

To be honest you are better off using a cookie based authentiation method rather than RFC2617 which is what most websites implement these days. Take a look at md5-login.pm fr an implementation of MD5 cookie authentication.

Dingus

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[hossman]

Your question is a little ... er ... "vague"

Can you explain a little more about what it is you wnat to do?

[iburrell]

There is a LWP::Authen::Digest module that does HTTP Digest authentication. LWP::UserAgent should automatically retry the request after calling the authentication handler when the server asks for authentication. The client code needs to set the username and password. Either by calling credentials</cod> or overriding <code>get_basic_credentials to prompt the user.

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->credentials($host, $realm, $user, $pass);
$ua->request($req);

[archen]

In .htaccess I believe the default is MD5. There is a really nice module for writing apache compatable passwords: Crypt::PasswdMD5 . You might want to ask your administrator what is being used. If that's you, you might want to look at httpd.conf or apache.org for more information. That is if you're using apache. IIS can use some sort of windows authentication scheme, etc.