#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST GET); use HTTP::Cookies; # Tells me result of $ua->request sub tell_me { my $op = shift @_; if ($op->is_success) { print "Connection OK!"; } else { print $op->status_line . "\n"; } } #important variables my $document_url = shift; my $login_url = 'https://www2.lib.purdue.edu:2443/login'; my $pass = shift; my $user = shift; # Set up LWP browser, set up temporary and empty cookie jar my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0'); $ua->cookie_jar( {} ); # POST the username and password , and (hopefully) store resultant session cookie my $req = $ua->request(POST $login_url, [user => $user, pass => $pass]) ; tell_me($req); # GET the document I want $req = $ua->request(GET $document_url, ':content_file' => $file_name); tell_me($req); exit 0;