Entering Username Password on a website

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Re: Entering Username Password on a website by BigLug (Chaplain) on Sep 18, 2002 at 04:50 UTC
Taking a look at the html of their front page, the login procedure is quite simple. Ignore the JavaScript .. thats just so they can do cool things if the login fails. The following code is an adaptation of the example in Cookbook 20.2 but is untested as I have no mail.com account :) `use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST); use LWP::UserAgent; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $req = POST 'http://www.mail.com/scripts/common/proxy.main', [ action => 'login', show_frame => 'Enter', mail_language => 'us', login => 'full@email.address', password => 'yourpassword', ]; $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string; if ($content =~/You Have New Mail/i) { send_an_email() }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Entering Username Password on a website by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Sep 18, 2002 at 14:35 UTC
It doesn't work as is. It needs to be able to get the redirected content. On my account, http://www.mail.com/scripts/common/proxy.main redirects to http://mail02.mail.com/scripts/common/outblaze.main and the redirect breaks this script. I seem to remember someone getting a redirect to work with LWP though.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Entering Username Password on a website by Molt (Chaplain) on Sep 18, 2002 at 15:45 UTC
To enable redirection of POST requests: `push @{$ua->requests_redirectable}, 'POST';`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Entering Username Password on a website by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Sep 18, 2002 at 19:20 UTC
Here is all I have right now... #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST); use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Cookies; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; push @{$ua->requests_redirectable}, 'POST'; $ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "lwpcookies.txt", autosave +=> 1)); my $req = POST 'http://www.mail.com/scripts/common/proxy.main', [ action => 'login', show_frame => 'Enter', mail_language => 'us', login => 'your@mail.com', password => 'password', ]; my $res = $ua->request($req)->as_string; print $res; [download] It prints this: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Connection: close Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:12:46 GMT Pragma: no-cache Server: Apache Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15 Client-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:10:31 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 Set-Cookie: ob_cookies=; domain=mail02.mail.com; path=/ Title: iname.com X-Cache: MISS from webserver <!-- ws1-11.us4.outblaze.com, 0, Bad authenticator cookie!, , , --><h +tml> <head> <title>iname.com</title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> </head> <script language="Javascript"> function popUp(url){ window.open(url,'','width=550,height=400,resizable=yes,scrollbars= +yes,menubar=no'); } </script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mail02.mail.com/templates/common/u +s/css.htm"> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" topmargin="0" marginheight="2"> <p><center> </center></p> <p><center> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://oas-central.realmedia.com +/RealMedia/ads/adstream_jx.ads/mail.com/bannertop/1279673@x01?"> </script> <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- _version=10; //--> </script> <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1"> <!-- _version=11; // --> </script> <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf('MSIE 3') != -1){ document.write('<IFRAME WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT +=0 HSPACE=0 VSPACE=0 FRAMEBORDER=0 SCROLLING=no BORDERCOLOR="#000000" + SRC="http://oas-central.realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_sx.cgi/ +mail.com/bannertop/1279673@x01?"></iframe>'); } else if (_version < 11) { document.write ('<A HREF="http://oas-central.realmedia.com/RealMedia/a +ds/click_nx.ads/mail.com/bannertop/1279673@x01?" target="_new"><IMG S +RC="http://oas-central.realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/ma +il.com/bannertop/1279673@x01?"></a>'); } // --> </SCRIPT> </center><script language="Javascript"> top.document.location.href="http://mail02.mail.com/templates/common/us +/expire.htm"; </script><p><center> <!-- ----------Advertising.com Banner Code---------- --> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="http://servedby.advertising.com/sit +e=42011/size=468060/bnum=96107808/optn=1"> </SCRIPT> <NOSCRIPT> <A HREF="http://servedby.advertising.com/click/site=42011/bnum=9610780 +8" TARGET="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://servedby.advertising.com/site=420 +11/size=468060/bnum=96107808/bins=1/rich=0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" B +ORDER="0" ALT="Click to learn more..."></A> </NOSCRIPT> <!-- ----------Copyright 2000, Advertising.com---------- --> </center> <p><center> </center></p> <p><center><font size="-1" color="#000000">© 2002 Mail.com. All r +ights reserved.</FONT></center> </body> </html> [download] What else should we be doing?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Entering Username Password on a website by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Sep 18, 2002 at 17:33 UTC
Well, now we are getting somewhere but alas! we have forgotten to `use HTTP::Cookies`. I'll try and work on it after lunch.	[reply] [d/l]
Forward your mail.com email to another account by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Feb 20, 2003 at 22:34 UTC
I found Get mail.com today. Be sure you get the latest version from the CVS. Update: You will want to make a few changes to this script as follows: Put in your smtp host at line 29 and the email address to send the messages to on line 30. Comment out lines 301 - 305.	[reply]


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