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- package LWP::Authen::Basic;
- use strict;
-
- require MIME::Base64;
-
- sub authenticate
- {
- my($class, $ua, $proxy, $auth_param, $response,
- $request, $arg, $size) = @_;
-
- my($user, $pass) = $ua->get_basic_credentials($auth_param->{realm},
- $request->url, $proxy);
- return $response unless defined $user and defined $pass;
-
- my $auth_header = $proxy ? "Proxy-Authorization" : "Authorization";
- my $auth_value = "Basic " . MIME::Base64::encode("$user:$pass", "");
-
- # Need to check this isn't a repeated fail!
- my $r = $response;
- while ($r) {
- my $auth = $r->request->header($auth_header);
- if ($auth && $auth eq $auth_value) {
- # here we know this failed before
- $response->header("Client-Warning" =>
- "Credentials for '$user' failed before");
- return $response;
- }
- $r = $r->previous;
- }
-
- my $referral = $request->clone;
- $referral->header($auth_header => $auth_value);
- return $ua->request($referral, $arg, $size, $response);
- }
-
- 1;
-