This is part of a script that I wrote for getting data from a password protected site. The site uses cookies for the logins, and the password URL can be passed straight in via the URL as GET parameters.
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "$cookie_file",
autosave => 1));
$ua->timeout($url_timeout);
$res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new('GET', "$login_url"));
if ($res->is_error()) {
$response = $response->status_line;
exit;
}
$response = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new('GET', "$data_url"));
if ($response->is_error()) {
$response = $response->status_line;
}
else {
# do what you want to do with the pages here
}
First I create a "cookie jar" which retains the cookie submitted by the site login mechanism..
Then, I submit the login_url, which is a complete URL escaped string.
Thereafter, if the login is successful, I can navigate to any of the protected URLs..
HTH
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