BEGIN {
    sub SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::get_basic_credentials { 
      return 'username' => 'password';
    }
  }
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Where it says 'username', put in the username to login as. Replace 'password' with the appropriate password for the username you're trying to use.

SOAP::Transport will call this function to get the username and password to log in as, so when you override the function, it'll log in with what you tell it.

Thanks. I have done what you said. However, I would expect to see something like this in the header when I send my request:

POST http://newscentre.aap.com.au/SRW/SRW.asmx
Authorization: Basic dmljcGFybDJcbWV0YWxpYjo1bmV3c2NlbnRyZTM=
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. Since this is not in the header (or anywher else in the SOAP request), I think that I am missing something. Are you sure this is all that needs to be done?

I see that I have been down voted twice by now (first time ever), and it probably looks like I want others to do the work for me. I think I should mention that I have been spending a lot of hours in the past few days trying to understand the SOAP::Lite module, which compared to other modules I worked with in the past is not that user friendly (a much longer discussion about this issue can be found here). I'm sorry if the questions aren't that great, but please be patient. Thanks for the help,
Guy

You just have to include this code snippet (with username and password replaced of course) in your code using SOAP::Lite. That should do the trick according to the docs.

Update: Ahrg, you guys are too quick for me :-) ... sorry for the double posts ...

-- Hofmator