in reply to Re: LWP::UserAgent and Cookies
in thread LWP::UserAgent and Cookies

Just a note:

You don't need 


$cookie_jar->extract_cookies( $response );

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If cookie jar object is set for user agent object than user agent does this itself.

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Re^3: LWP::UserAgent and Cookies
by jczeus (Monk) on Oct 27, 2021 at 08:37 UTC
    This is a very old thread, but having just tried myself I noticed that the cookie is not set if I don't make that method call.

    Although not needed in my example, I used a file for saving the cookie just to check the session-ID, and the file stayed empty without that call. Any thoughts?
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      This works fine for me:

      #!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use Test::More tests => 1;

my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new;
my $ua         = LWP::UserAgent->new;

$ua->cookie_jar ($cookie_jar);

my $response = $ua->get ('https://twitter.com/');

like $cookie_jar->as_string, qr/guest_id=/, 'Cookie retrieved';

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      HTTP::Cookies 6.01, LWP::UserAgent 6.15.

      🦛

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[d/l]
        For some strange reason, works now for me too. Probably a PEBKAC. Thank you for your help.

        HTTP::Cookies 6.10, LWP::UserAgent 6.55.
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