in reply to Re: login just fine
in thread LWP and HTML 302 Error

I read the docs now, let me see if I got this straight (going to have to try it tonight when I'm not at work). I need to save the file with $cookie_jar->save( $file ); and then load the file with $cookie_jar->load( $file );.
Then loading that will allow me to do my 2nd post? Thanks for the help.

Michael Jensen
InShift Technologies
http://www.inshift.com
michael@inshift.com

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Re: Re: Re: login just fine
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 21, 2002 at 21:10 UTC
    No. Since you do both requests in the same program, the $cookie_jar is stored in memory, so you don't have to save it to a file or load it from a file. You just need to put a cookie in it (extract_cookies), and then put a cookie from the jar in your request (add_cookie_header).

    See

    $cookie_jar->add_cookie_header($request); The add_cookie_header() method will set the appropriate Cookie:-header for the *HTTP::Request* object given as argument. + The $request must have a valid url attribute before this method is called. $cookie_jar->extract_cookies($response); The extract_cookies() method will look for Set-Cookie: and Set-Cookie2: headers in the *HTTP::Response* object passed as argument. Any of these headers that are found are used to update + the state of the $cookie_jar.

    update:
    I was reviewing some of my nodes, and then I noticed $ua->cookie_jar ( you know, it would've be nice if somebody pointed this out to me). Turning to the documentation would've still been helpfull though (you'd have known the following, and could've dismissed my comments quickly ;)

    $ua->cookie_jar([$cookies]) Get/set the HTTP::Cookies object to use. The default is to have no cookie_jar, i.e. never automatically add ``Cookie'' headers to the requests.

     

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