in reply to Re: login???
in thread LWP and Logging into webpages

i tried this to experiment... the goal was to get the content of my default page once ive logged in into $content 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

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


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>'http://perlmonks.com/index.pl');
$req->authorization_basic('maddfisherman', '********');
my $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;

[download]
but this just gives me the default page not my page after i log in.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Re: Re: login???
by joealba (Hermit) on Jun 23, 2002 at 14:26 UTC
    Perlmonks doesn't use web server authorization like that. It's all cgi script-based authentication based on cgi params or cookies. 
    # UNTESTED
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>'http://perlmonks.com/index.pl?op=l
+ogin;user=maddfisherman;passwd=******');
my $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;

    [download]
    And if you're thinking of writing a votebot, don't. :)
[reply]
[d/l]
      i tried it... this also returns the perlmonks homepage.
[reply]
        Correct. You should get the perlmonks homepage, just like you would if you went to http://www.perlmonks.org/ and then logged in.

        What is it that you're trying to get?
[reply]
Re: Re: Re: login???
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Jun 23, 2002 at 05:02 UTC
[reply]
[d/l]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom