PERL Miscellaneous - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server;

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Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server;

Nikos

2005-04-27, 8:57 pm

I get this when from my perl script i try to connect to my database from
within my index.pl script;

Software error:

Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server;
consider upgrading MySQL client at D:\www\cgi-bin\index.pl line 16.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin@lan), giving this
error message and the time and date of the error.

Iam using Perl v5.8 an i downloaded DBD::mysql from cpan.

must i download a new DBD::mysql?

Iam on XP and i have downloaded mysql5.msi

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