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

Hi Monks, I'm trying to write a perl script to download real time stock quotes from a website. The site requires authentication first and seems to do this using cookies. A url that will directly obtain the quote is: http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/money/shares/login.asp?page=/money/shares/live_stock_quote.asp?asx=KAZ&username=znubeen&password=znubeen This works fine from a browser, but not using wget or the like. How can I use perl to recieve and feed the cookie back to the server?

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Re: Returning cookies to a webserver
by stefan k (Curate) on Aug 29, 2001 at 14:00 UTC
    I think it should be possible using the LWP module. A quick glance at man lwpcook and searching for 'cookies' gives: 
    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.yah
+oo.no"));
         print $res->status_line, "\n";

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    So have a look at man HTTP::Cookies to get more information...

    Regards... Stefan
    you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion

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