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Re: log into a website via perl client

by derby (Abbot)
on Feb 06, 2004 at 17:35 UTC ( [id://327157]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to log into a website via perl client

Submitting the login page is easy - use LWP. The hard part is going to be figuring out what to do after login (since no two apps quite handle it the same way). You may need to catch and store some cookies for future posts and gets.
-derby

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Re: Re: log into a website via perl client
by shrubbery (Acolyte) on Feb 06, 2004 at 18:22 UTC
    Thanks for the replies. No luck yet. I'm trying to use the post method in LWP::UserAgent. Anyone have any sort of example?

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