Hi raflach,
I struggled with this for a couple more hours and then went to plan 'B'

What I did was to get the cookie value in my initial script and pass it, via a post, to the LWP'd script. I modified my authenication subroutine (saved in a module), to accept first a cookie and, if that failed, get the cookie value from the posted data.

This works well and I do not have to worry about passing cookies. It also has an added bonus. I am now able to run my scripts if cookies are disabled by saving the cookie value in a hidden field.

Some day I'll understand how this cookie_jar thing works :-).

you basicly need something like this: $ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "cookies.txt",autosave => 1));

some code from some of my script (to ilustrate how it works):

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "cookies.txt",autosave => 1));
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://www.cacti.kobra.ktu.lt/index.php');
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('login_username='.$login.'&login_password='.$passw.'&action=login');
my $res = $ua->request($req);
sleep(3);

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.cacti.kobra.ktu.lt/tree.php?action=item_edit&parent_id=254&tree_
id=12&type_select=2');
my $res = $ua->request($req);
my $data = $res->as_string;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies::Netscape->new('file' => '<your cookie f
+ile here>' ));

my $url = URI->new( '<your URL here>' );

my $response = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url));
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my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies::Netscape->new('file' => '<your cookie f
+ile here>' ));

my $url = URI->new( '<your URL here>' );

my $response = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url));
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