Hello Fellow Monks,

I am trying to download the HTML of a URL which requires authentication (username and password). Using curl, I am able to successfully do this via:

curl https://example.com --cookie "session=536...035a" -o "HTML_output.txt"

where the session ID is the one I obtained via the browser's developer tools function.

I am trying to replicate this using a more "native" Perl approach and using the LWP module, I have the following code which allows me to get the HTML of a given URL that does not require any authentication:

use LWP;

my $url     = "https://example.com";
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new( );
my $resp    = $browser->get($url);

print $resp->content, "\n";
[download]

Is there a way using LWP (or some other module) to also include the session ID from the browser cookie?

Thank you in advance.

As a quick update, I have modified my code to use HTTP::Cookies::Netscape as follows:

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP;
use HTTP::Cookies::Netscape;

my $url = "https://example.com";
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Netscape->new(
    file  => "/path/to/cookies.txt",
    );
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new( );
$browser->cookie_jar( $cookie_jar );
my $resp = $browser->get($url);

print $resp->content, "\n";
[download]

Unfortunately, when I run that, the response that comes back tells me that I still need to supply a proper username and password, even though my session is still valid on the browser. I used the Firefox add-on "cookies.txt" to download a cookies.txt file which looks like:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
.example.com    TRUE    /    TRUE    1984932267    session    5361...1
+329
[download]