my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new; 
	$cookie_jar->clear; # shouldn't be necessary since object was newly created in above line but this is all experimentation... 
	
	# A variable that holds our POST request to the site
	$ENV{HTTPS_VERSION} = 3;

	my $action = POST 'https://adwords.google.com/select/LoginValidation',
	    [ 
			'hl' => $language,
	        'login.userid' => $adwordsEmailLogin,
	        'login.password' => $adwordsPassword,
		 	'login' => 'Login'
	    ];

	my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
	
	$ua->cookie_jar($cookie_jar);  
	
	# We disguise ourselves as Internet Explorer
	$ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)');
	$ua->timeout(30);
	
	#$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = 'http://proxy.host:proxy_port'; #if need proxy

	if ($proxy) {
		logMessage( "adwordsLogin: Logging into adwords using proxy $proxy.\n");		
		$ua->proxy('http',$proxy); # should this be https?  No, seems to work as is. # actually, not sure.  check this later.
	}

	my $www = $ua->request( $action );
	
	# In the event that the request to google fails

	my $headers = new HTTP::Headers;
	$headers = $www->headers();
	my $redir = $headers->header('Location'); #target url
	my $action2 = GET 'https://adwords.google.com'.$redir; 
	my $www2 = $ua->request( $action2 );
	unless ($www2->is_success) {
		logMessage( "AdwordsLogin: The error code: " . $www2->code . " was returned!");
	}
	
	$cookie_jar->extract_cookies($www2);

	# Put the HTML into a seperate variable
	#my $content = $www2->content;
	# test
	#open F, "> adwordsLoginResult.html"; print F $content; close F;

	$adwordsLoginTries++;
	return \$cookie_jar;