yeah Data:umper was a typo but that wasnt the problem..
Hmm i tried almost all the suggestion here but it didnt seem to work:( Ok what if I need to access a page which requires authorisation instead. That is i need to set the cookies for a username and passowrd and add that to the request header before accessing the page. How can I do this via a perl script?
Any suggestions?
Read the documentation for LWP, LWP::Simple and WWW::Mechanize (and maybe even WWW::Mechanize::Shell). These do what you need, including authentification. WWW::Mechanize::Shell will try its best and write the Perl script for you, but maybe you're better off writing the script using WWW::Mechanize.