Question

The following program fails when trying to go to an https web site that requires basic authentication.

use Mojo::UserAgent;
my $ua = Mojo::UserAgen->new;

my $user = "foobar";
my $pass = "Cant#change";

my $url  = "https://$user:$pass\@site.foo.com";
my $tx   = $ua->get($url);

if (my $res = $tx->success) {
    say $res->body;
}
else {
    my ($message, $code) = $tx->error;
    say $code ? "$code response $message" : "Connection error: $message";
}

When I run with MOJO_USERAGENT_DEBUG=1 I get the following output:

-- Blocking request (https://foobar:cant#[e-mail])
-- Connect (https:foobar:Cant:443)
Connection error: Couldn't connect

Using Mojolicious 3.35 updated from CPAN. Unfortunately, passwords will likely contain “special characters” (ascii #!@%^& and the like) and changing the password to something not containing a # is not an option. The web server handles the request correctly in web browsers, so I do not believe it is a web server configuration issue.

So is there another way to achieve this in Mojo?

Answer 1

The error is yours, not Mojo’s. Specifically, the URL is incorrectly built. Fix:

use URI::Escape qw( uri_escape );
my $creds = uri_escape($user) . ':' . uri_escape($pass);
my $url  = 'https://' . $creds . '@site.foo.com/';