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# Thanks to merlyn for nudging me and giving me this snippet!
use strict;
use HTTP::Daemon;
use LWP::UserAgent;

$|++;

my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new or die;
print $d->url, "\n";

# How many requests do we expect?
my ($ex_user,$ex_pass) = @ARGV;

my $verbose = $ENV{TEST_HTTP_VERBOSE};

my $done = 0;
while (! $done and my $c = $d->accept) {
  while (my $req = $c->get_request) {
    if ($verbose) {
      warn "# Request URI: " . $req->url->path;
      my @lines = split "\n",$req->as_string;
      warn "# $_\n" for @lines;
    };

    my $res;
    my ($user,$pass);
    if ($req->url->path eq '/exit') {
        $done = 1;
        $res = HTTP::Response->new(200, "OK", undef, "done");

    } elsif (    ($user, $pass) = $req->authorization_basic
        and $user eq $ex_user
        and $pass eq $ex_pass) {
          $res = HTTP::Response->new(200, "OK", undef,
              "user = '$user' pass = '$pass'");
          $res->header('Connection' => 'close');# bye

    } else {
      warn "# User : '$user' Password : '$pass'\n"
          if $verbose;
      $res = HTTP::Response->new(401, "Auth Required", undef,
                                 "auth required ($user/$pass)");
      $res->www_authenticate("Basic realm=\"testing realm\"");
    };

    if ($verbose) {
      warn "---\n";
      my @lines = split "\n",$res->as_string;
      warn "# $_\n" for @lines;
    };
    $c->send_response($res);
  }
  $c->close;
  undef($c);
};