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 }