Access sharepoint calendar using LWP

karayan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All, I am trying to download a sharepoint calendar using LWP.

use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Data::Dumper;

my $URL = 'https://calendar.host.com';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( ); 

$ua->credentials('http://host.com',
                 '',
                 'user' => 'password');

my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $URL;

my $res = $ua->request($req);

print Dumper($res);
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I am getting error NTLM is not supported. Web browser is sending a WWW-Authenticate header field that the Web server is not configured to accept. I think the server is using LDAP authentication. Is it possible for LWP to authenticate LDAP. Please advise. Thanks..

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Re: Access sharepoint calendar using LWP by Anonymous Monk on Mar 19, 2010 at 07:37 UTC
I think the server is using LDAP authentication. Is it possible for LWP to authenticate LDAP. Please advise. Thanks.. First you thought it was NTLM, why do you think it is LDAP? I would ask the admin and find out definitively (in addition to learning about sharepoint on MSDN). http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap-0.40/ t/58lwp.t	[reply]
Re: Access sharepoint calendar using LWP by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Mar 19, 2010 at 13:18 UTC
Accessing SharePoint from Perl is not super trivial, but as this is something that interests me, I have found a few resources: Talking to SharePoint Lists with Perl The SharePoint Perl Connection Part 1 How to upload a document to SharePoint with Perl If you don't want to use the web, there's always the database Accessing SharePoint List Data Directly with Perl And to resolve the issue, the OP is probably confused about whether it's LDAP or NTLM because SharePoint is implemented in an environment where users are within an Active Directory Domain. Just to be explicit, the authentication is NTLM. Where LDAP comes into the picture is that Active Directory can be accessed using LDAP.	[reply]
Re^2: Access sharepoint calendar using LWP by Anonymous Monk on Mar 19, 2010 at 13:23 UTC
ust to be explicit, the authentication is NTLM. Maybe it is, but he thinks it isn't, so maybe it isn't. Configuring Authentication (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)	[reply]
Re: Access sharepoint calendar using LWP by Anonymous Monk on Oct 18, 2010 at 14:56 UTC
Here's an example which accesses SharePoint list data using RPC and Perl with XML::Simple and LWP::UserAgent. I use this method to create custom reports which pull data from SharePoint lists. Accessing SharePoint list data with RPC using Perl	[reply]


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