20.15.1. Problem

20.15.2. Solution

$ua->credentials('http://www.perlcabal.com/cabal_only/',
                 'Secret Perl Cabal Files',
                 'username' => 'password');

20.15.3. Discussion

A somewhat kludgey solution is to specify URLs with the username and password in them:

http://user:password@www.example.com/private/pages/

This is kludgey because links within the returned document do not have your username and password encoded in them. Solutions that rely entirely on URL-encoded usernames and passwords often quickly degenerate into code that wishes it had used credentials to begin with.