use strict;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "cookie2.txt",autosave => 1,));
my $url_base = "http://news.phxlab.honeywell.com/phpbb/posting.php?mode=newtopic&f=12";
my $response = $ua->get($url_base);
#print $response->content;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>'http://news.phxlab.honeywell.com/phpbb/login.php?sid=725b728e071beec160e85c81d048a151');
$request->authorization_basic('username', 'password');
my $response = $ua->request($request);
my $content = $response->content;
$content =~ s/\n//g;#extracting session id

{
	print $response->content;  # or whatever
	#print $content;
	
}