How to automate a login

donno20 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks,
I am developing a script to get data from a web server. But before this I have to login the webpage.
Can I use LWP to do the login and then do a web query again upon login success ?
Thanks for sharing.. ^_^

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Re: How to automate a login by antirice (Priest) on Aug 04, 2003 at 10:44 UTC
Check out WWW::Mechanize. If you want to develop the login scheme really really quickly, check out WWW::Mechanize::Shell. Hope this helps. antirice The first rule of Perl club is - use Perl The ith rule of Perl club is - follow rule i - 1 for i > 1	[reply]
Re: Re: How to automate a login by mpd (Monk) on Aug 04, 2003 at 17:31 UTC
Furthermore, here is an article by merlyn explaining some uses of this fun module.	[reply]
Re: How to automate a login by donno20 (Sexton) on Aug 06, 2003 at 02:26 UTC
Hi, Thank you for great links. FYI, this call "web scraping". ^_^	[reply]