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problem with the connection
Posted by: pravin jagadeesan
Date: February 13, 2007 11:44PM

Am a newbie programmer in this category. i got an error while trying to establish a connection with mysql from perl via dbi drivers. the error report is as follows,

error:
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DBI connect <'test':'root','...'> client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client at sample.pl line 8.

cannot connect: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client.

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in my program at line8

my $dbh_m=DBI-> connect("DBI:mysql:test","root","...")
or die("cannot connect: $DBI::errstr\n");

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am using mysql 5.0 and active state perl 5.8.8



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/14/2007 10:45PM by pravin jagadeesan.

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