Re: log into a website via perl client


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Re: log into a website via perl client

by Sol-Invictus (Scribe)

on Feb 06, 2004 at 17:35 UTC ( [id://327158]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to log into a website via perl client

install libwww-perl-5.76.tar.gz

then type perldoc lwpcook for your own copy of this handy recipe :)

ACCESS TO PROTECTED DOCUMENTS
       Documents protected by basic authorization can easily be access
+ed like
       this:

         use LWP::UserAgent;
         $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
         $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.linpro.no/secret
+/');
         $req->authorization_basic('aas', 'mypassword');
         print $ua->request($req)->as_string;
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