use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request::Common; my $url = 'http://www.company.com/protected_page.html'; # Set up the ntlm client and then the base64 encoded ntlm handshake message my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive=>1); $ua->credentials('www.company.com:80', '', "MyDomain\\MyUserCode", 'MyPassword'); $request = GET $url; print "--Performing request now...-----------\n"; $response = $ua->request($request); print "--Done with request-------------------\n"; if ($response->is_success) {print "It worked!->" . $response->code . "\n"} else {print "It didn't work!->" . $response->code . "\n"}
The module takes advantage of the Authen::NTLM module by Mark Bush. Since there is also another Authen::NTLM module available from CPAN by Yee Man Chan with an entirely different interface, it is necessary to ensure that you have the correct NTLM module.
In addition, there have been problems with incompatibilities between different versions of Mime::Base64, which Bush's Authen::NTLM makes use of. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that your Mime::Base64 module supports exporting of the encode_base64 and decode_base64 functions.
To do this, pass the ``keep_alive=>1'' option to the LWP::UserAgent when creating it, like this:
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive=>1);
The credentials must be set like this:
$ua->credentials('www.company.com:80', '', "MyDomain\\MyUserCode", 'MyPassword');
Note that you cannot use the HTTP::Request object's authorization_basic() method to set the credentials. Note, too, that the 'www.company.com:80' portion only sets credentials on the specified port AND it is case-sensitive (this is due to the way LWP is coded, and has nothing to do with LWP::Authen::Ntlm)
Questions specific to LWP::Authen::Ntlm can be forwarded to jtillman@bigfoot.com