CERN server authenication??

Ku Kam Ming (kmku@hkusua.hku.hk)
Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:18:38 +0800 (HKT)


> 
> HI,
> 
> 	I encountered a problem. I wrote a script to automate the login to
> a CERN server:
> 
>    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
>    my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => 'http://www.ei.org/village/';
>    $req->header(Authorization => 'Basic ' . 
> MIME::Base64::encode("$user:$passwd",''));
>    print $ua->request($req)->as_string;
> 
> 
> It works fine for the first time every day (returns the HTML file). But
> not for the rest of a day (alreay auth.??) and returns:
> 
> 
> --- HTTP::Response=HASH(0x2570d4) ---
> RC: 200 (OK)
> Message: Document follows
>  
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 06:57:50 GMT
> Server: CERN/3.0A
> Content-Length: 5535
> Content-Type: text/html
> Client-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 06:54:52 GMT
>  
> -----------------------------------
> 
> 
> 	What's the problem? I would like to know when the login timeout?
> 
> Thanks  in advance,
> 
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