Re: Entering Username Password on a website

Taking a look at the html of their front page, the login procedure is quite simple. Ignore the JavaScript .. thats just so they can do cool things if the login fails.

The following code is an adaptation of the example in Cookbook 20.2 but is untested as I have no mail.com account :)

use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = POST 'http://www.mail.com/scripts/common/proxy.main', [
   action => 'login',
   show_frame => 'Enter',
   mail_language => 'us',
   login => 'full@email.address',
   password => 'yourpassword',
];
$content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;

if ($content =~/You Have New Mail/i) {
   send_an_email()
}
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Re: Re: Entering Username Password on a website by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Sep 18, 2002 at 14:35 UTC
It doesn't work as is. It needs to be able to get the redirected content. On my account, http://www.mail.com/scripts/common/proxy.main redirects to http://mail02.mail.com/scripts/common/outblaze.main and the redirect breaks this script. I seem to remember someone getting a redirect to work with LWP though.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Entering Username Password on a website by Molt (Chaplain) on Sep 18, 2002 at 15:45 UTC
To enable redirection of POST requests: `push @{$ua->requests_redirectable}, 'POST';`	[reply] [d/l]