#!/usr/lib/perl
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use HTTP::Headers;

#is this where I declare cookie_jar?? seems like I am doing it twice
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

#but it seems like I am nearly doing the same thing here
#but I need the variable below for add_cookie_header and extract_cookies
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => 'cookie_jar', autosave =>1));
my $request = $ua->simple_request(POST "http://www.sitedomain.com/login.cfm",
                            {
			   				 username =>'abcuser',
							 userpass =>'abc123',
							 submit			 =>'Submit'
                            });
							
while ($request->is_redirect) {
	my $u = $request->header('location') or die "missing location: ",
	$request->as_string;
	#print "redirecting to $u\n";
	$u=~s/^\.+/http\:\/\/www\.sitedomain\.com/s;
	$request = $ua->simple_request(GET $u);
	}

#do this before extract? is that the right variable to do it on?
#HTTP::Cookies says that add_cookie_header must have a "valid url attribute".
#that lingo doesn't click with me
$cookie_jar->add_cookie_header($request);	
my $response = $ua->request($request);

$cookie_jar->extract_cookies($response);
$ua->cookie_jar($cookie_jar);
my $request = $ua->simple_request(POST "http://www.sitedomain.com/page.cfm",
                            {
			   				firstname		=>"Michael",
							lastname		=>"Jensen",
							company			=>"companyname",
							address			=>"111 East 222 South",
							city			=>"Provo",
				 			state			=>"UT",
							zip				=>"99999"
                            });

if ($request->is_success) {
	$a = "worked";
	}
else{
	$a = "failed";
	}
print "$a";