Perl script to login into one url and again need to use the url

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

Hi Experts, Hi Experts, need help to create perl script to login to one url using perl script and again i have to use that url to pass the userid for further actions. Please help me with the script to login into the test url with username and password and again i have to use that url Ex:

sub remove{
    my ($user) = shift;
    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
    $ua->agent('Mozilla/4.5');
        ## HERE I HAVE TO LOGIN INTO http://test.com/ THIS url using u
+sername:test and password:test
    my $url_arg = '';
    if ($ENV=~ /^Dev/i) {
        $url_arg = "http://test.com/test?USERID=$user";
    
    }
    my $url = URI::URL->new($url_arg);
    my $req = HTTP::Request->new ('GET',$url);
    $res = $ua->request($req);
    if ($res->is_success)
    {
        return $res;
    }else
    {
        print "Content-type:text/html \n\n";
        print $res->error_as_HTML;
    }
    exit 0;
}
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Re: Perl script to login into one url and again need to use the url by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 23, 2017 at 10:42 UTC
I think you will likely have more success using WWW::Mechanize, as it bundles usual browser behaviour in a more compact way than using LWP::UserAgent directly. For web automation, you will have to understand how HTML and HTTP interact. Logging into a website is usually done through a HTML form. You submit that form with the needed values. WWW::Mechanize has the `->submit_form` method for that.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl script to login into one url and again need to use the url by thanos1983 (Parson) on Aug 23, 2017 at 12:21 UTC
Hello again jitender, I agree with fellow monk Corion.I do not have too much experience on this area but I did not proposed that earlier because I thought you want to use strictly the LWP::UserAgent module. Any way, here is a working example that does exactly what you want Perl Script to login to a secure WebSite by using the WWW::Mechanize module. Hope this helps, BR. Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl script to login into one url and again need to use the url by thanos1983 (Parson) on Aug 23, 2017 at 10:19 UTC
Hello jitender Welcome to the Monastery. Please use the `<code>` tags on you code. It is really difficult to review your code when it is not formatted. Update: I think all you need is to follow the recommendations of this tutorial LWP::UserAgent and Basic Authentication. Looking forward to your update, BR. Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!	[reply] [d/l] [select]