Re: can't get authorization

Fabio Marzocca <[email protected]> writes:

> On 21 Oct 2005 05:26:48 -0700, Gisle Aas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It doesn't.
> 
> But looking better at the flow, I am convinced it is not a matter on IPv6.
> 
> Summarizing, this is the stream:
> 
> 1) get the page, sending userid and pwd
> 2) user agent is diverted to an authentication page
> 3) user agent is diverted back to the site.
> 
> With Firefox, points 1 and 3 are on the same TCP stream. With LWP they
> are 3 separated TCP streams..

You can get LWP to use a single TCP connection by turing on the
keep_alive feature.  Done something like this:

  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 2);

Regards,
Gisle