in reply to Getting Cookies

Your code above is correct, assuming that your cookie isn't timing out (i.e. isn't a session cookie). Under normal circumstances, session cookies are discarded immediately upon exit from your 'browser'. If you want to force holding onto the cookie, use ignore_discard in your constructor: 
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new(file => 'C:\path\to\cookies.dat',
                                    autosave=> 1,
                                    ignore_discard => 1);

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The flag is documented in HTTP::Cookies, and read HTTP_cookie#Session_cookie to learn more about the behavior.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^2: Getting Cookies
by PerlSufi (Friar) on Jul 05, 2013 at 16:45 UTC
    Thanks, kennethk. That worked for me. :)
    The cookie is different from what my browser gives me so I'm working on how to get that now
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      Firebug, the free Firefox plug-in, makes that easy.

      I'd also mention that, instead of storing cookies to disk, you can use Data::Dumper to look at your cookie jar contents.

      #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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        Ty, kennethk. I have been using HTTP live headers. I forgot firebug did that. I actually want my script to get them automatically. I will be using WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to do crawl the site. I need the JSESSIONID to be a part of an HTTP get request.
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        Oh. It turns out that WWW::Mechanize::Firefox doesn't save cookies to the jar? :(
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        Thanks again for recommending the Data::Dumper to get those cookies. I am another step closer to automating the page. Now I think I need to use a regex to match for the JSESSIONID and concatenate it into my get request.
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