COOKIES Some sites like to play games with cookies. By default LWP ignores cookies provided by the servers it visits. LWP will collect cookies and respond to cookie requests if you set up a cookie jar. use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Cookies; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "lwpcookies.txt", autosave => 1)); # and then send requests just as you used to do $res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://www.yahoo.no")); print $res->status_line, "\n"; As you visit sites that send you cookies to keep, then the file lwpcookies.txt" will grow.