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

I am grabbing a page for parsing like
use LWP::Simple;
$page = get 'http://www.bla.com';

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problem is that I won't get to the page unless a cookie is set after I login. I am being redirected to the login page every time I go to the url. Is it possible to somehow send a cookie content to the server without having a real cookie?

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Re: Sending a cookie info without a cookie
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Sep 08, 2000 at 01:57 UTC
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      Well, you can still use LWP::Simple, but you have to do just about everything the full-blown version uses. From the docs: 
      
       The module will also export the LWP::UserAgent object as
       `$ua' if you ask for it explicitly.

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      So that means you can do something like (untested!): 
      use LWP::Simple qw(get $ua);
use HTTP::Cookies;
$jar = HTTP::Cookies->new;
... do other things with $jar ...
$ua->cookie_jar($jar);
...
$result = get $url;

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      But there's not much different there from just using the real LWP::UserAgent.

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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