Seeing a pattern yet, OnLooker? They posted this query to other forums and were told (by myself, several times) to use LWP::UserAgent. Kind of like a kid- don't like what dad says? Ask mom.

This is UNDOUBTEDLY easier to do with LWP::UserAgent. After seeing some of the code you wrote, my suggestion was to start over and ditch your Socket-based stuff. LWP makes web automation that easy.

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