Hello, I am using WWW:Mechanize to automate access to several websites I check regularly. My scripts log in, scrape the necessary data, and then logout.

The only thing that makes me a little nervous is that right now, my passwords are stored in the perl scripts in plaintext because that's what functions such as submit_form() expect.

I'm the only one that uses my computer - I'm not running a webserver or anything. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if I'm leaving myself vulnerable in some way by storing these passwords in plaintext in a text file on my computer. Should I be using a different method to store/access these passwords from perl?

Can the WWW Mechanize functions use some sort of encryption/decryption so I don't have to store plaintext versions of my passwords in my perl scripts? I should add that other than the perl files mentioned above, none of my passwords exist in plaintext format anywhere else on my computer to the best of my knowledge. I store all passwords in an encrypted KeePass database.

In reply to Best way to store passwords by Special_K

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