Hi there Monks,

I need to access a database through a HTTP interface. It all start with getting a login token to get going. Using a webbrowser or curl on the command line I can do this quite effortless

On a curl request:

curl 'https://somesite:8800/?library=Algemeen&function=Login&UserName=
+SomeUser&Password=SomePass'
[download]

I get back a piece of HTML:

<table><tr><td><b>Result</b></td><td ID="Result">True</td><tr><tr><td>
+<b>ResultMessage</b></td><td ID="ResultMessage"></td><tr><tr><td><b>S
+essionToken</b></td><td ID="SessionToken">sometoken</td><tr></table>
[download]

just as I expected. So I went ahead and made a small script with LWP doing the same thing:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

my $url = 'https://somesite:8800/';

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $url);
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('library=Algemeen&function=Login&UserName=SomeUser&Passw
+ord=SomePass');

my $res = $ua->request($req);


if ($res->is_success){
  print $res->content;
}else{
  print $res->status_line, "\n";
}
[download]

But alas... this returns a webpage instead of the table structure like it did with curl.

What is the difference between the curl example and the LWP example? Im kinda at a loss with this

Peter