--- /dev/null
+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;