Basic Authentication & perl client

[Daphna Wasserman (dwasserm)]

Hi,
 
I'm working on a java based application, where both server and client
are written in java (pojos). However, we also have some perl scripts
which act as clients; i.e. they send XML-RPC requests to the java
server.
I've implemented AuthenticationHandler on the server side, and have been
trying to send the username/password from perl , with no success. Both
BasicUser & BasicPassword are null when trying to retrieve them from the
XmlRpcHttpRequestConfig object.
 
I've tried using both LWP::UserAgent's  method credentials() &
HTTP:Headers' method Authorization_Basic().
 
Any ideas how I need to send these correctly?
 
I'm using XmlRpc3.1.1 & JDK1.6 
 
Thanks
Daphna