LWP::UserAgent: Basic Authorisation Bug

[Michael Schilli]

Hi Gisle, hi folks,

LWP::UserAgent changed from version 1.62 to 1.64 in that the
basic authorisation scheme does no longer work as expected
(and documented):

credentials("http://abc.com", "realm", "uname", "passwd");

does no longer work, it has to be

credentials("http://abc.com:80", "realm", "uname", "passwd");

Otherwise the user agent won't provide the authorisation information
necessary and the request will fail.

The reason for this is line 404 in LWP::UserAgent 1.64 which is
now

my $host_port = $uri->host_port;

instead of

my $host_port = $uri->netloc;

as of version 1.62. Is this intended? I for sure was confused and it
took me quite a while to figure out why my scripts wouldn't run
anymore.

Just to let you know!

-- Mike