Reference: credentials
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:57:52Z

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| Chapter 17 The LWP Library |

## credentials

     $ua->credentials(netloc, realm, uname, pass)

Uses the given username and password for authentication at the given network location and realm. This method sets the parameters for either the WWW-Authenticate or Proxy-Authenticate headers in a request. The `get_basic_credentials` method is called by `request` to retrieve the username and passwords, if they exist. The arguments are: .S1 Arguments

netloc

  The network location (usually a URL string) to which the username and password apply.

realm

  The name of the server-defined range of URLs that this data applies to.

uname

  The username for authentication.

pass

  The password for authentication. By default, the password will be transmitted with MIME base-64 encoding.

Reference: cookie_jar |  | Reference: env_proxy