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

Hi, i tried to login into the cisco.com page with the usual WWW::Mechanize methods: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $url = 'https://sso.cisco.com/autho/forms/CDClogin.html';
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(
                                cookie_jar => HTTP::Cookies->new( file
+ => 'cookies.txt')
                                );
$mech->get($url);
$mech->form_name('login_form');
$mech->field(userInput => 'user');
$mech->field(passwordInput => 'password');
$mech->click();

my $content = $mech->content();
print Dumper($content);

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Unfortunately $content does not contain the correct response. Is there a way to get a correct logon to the cisco.com page ? Thanks!

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Re: WWW::Mechanize and cisco.com
by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 07, 2012 at 13:44 UTC
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Re: WWW::Mechanize and cisco.com
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 08, 2012 at 03:58 UTC

    This url https://sso.cisco.com/autho/forms/CDClogin.html tells me you have money to hire a programmer to write this program for you :)

    This url http://developer.cisco.com/web/webex-developer/sso-reference tells me there is probably a better alternative to scraping cdclogin.html

    Maybe it involves Net::SAML/Net::SAML2 ... that first URL had a FAQ/Help links, if you have an account, ask about easier ways to automate authentication , they'll probably help you :)

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      Thanks for pointing me to that interesting links. IŽll give Http::Recorder a try. Paying someone else for a solution was not what i had in mind ;). My intention was to access Ciscos Error Message Decoder Tool. Something which has been done before by that guy: http://inetpro.org/wiki/Cisco_Error_Lookup_Tool_Scraper
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Re: WWW::Mechanize and cisco.com
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 08, 2012 at 03:48 UTC
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