my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
push @{ $ua->requests_redirectable }, 'POST';
my $cookies = new HTTP::Cookies(file=>'/Users/jcabraham/.cookies.txt',autosave=>1, ignore_discard=>1);
$ua->cookie_jar($cookies);

$ua->default_header('Accept-Encoding' => scalar HTTP::Message::decodable());
$ua->add_handler("request_send",  sub { shift->dump; return });
$ua->add_handler("response_done", sub { shift->dump; return });

# log off first, just start clean
my $auth_response = $ua->request(GET "http://ap1492-dsr/LogOff.php");

# now login
my $response = $ua->request(POST "http://ap1492-dsr/authenticate.php", [user => $authUser, password => $authPw, TimezoneOffset => 14400, submit => 'User Login']);

# scrape home page
$response = $ua->request(GET "http://ap1492-dsr/Welcome.php");

if ($response->is_success) {
  my $html = $response->decoded_content; 
  print $html;
}