I am trying to download the contents of a web page. I have two parameter variables that I am trying to use in the URL:

$month = "1"
$year = "2013"
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The problem is that the cookie values for the URL aren't being set properly. I then use the cookie data for a follow-up HTTP request. The URL works if I don't use variables and hard-code the values for Month and Year, but it doesn't work when I use the variables Month=$month and Year=$year. The variable is $url_to_get. It works when I put the values in for Month and Year:

$url_to_get = 'http://tennislink.usta.com/Tournaments/Schedule/SearchR
+esults.aspx?Action=2&Month=1&Year=2013&Sanctioned=0&SearchRadius=-1&E
+ntryLevel=False&Intermediate=False&Advanced=False';
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but this doesn't work:

$url_to_get = 'http://tennislink.usta.com/Tournaments/Schedule/SearchR
+esults.aspx?Action=2&Month=$month&Year=$year&Sanctioned=0&SearchRadiu
+s=-1&EntryLevel=False&Intermediate=False&Advanced=False';
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This is a portion of my script: (some of the modules are for other parts of the script)

#!/usr/bin/perl

use URI::URL;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Headers;
use HTTP::Response;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use WWW::Mechanize;

$month = "3";
$year = "2014";

$url_to_get = 'http://tennislink.usta.com/Tournaments/Schedule/SearchR
+esults.aspx?Action=2&Month=$month&Year=$year&Sanctioned=0&SearchRadiu
+s=-1&EntryLevel=False&Intermediate=False&Advanced=False';

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (Compatable; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)');
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "lwpcookies.txt", autosave 
+=> 1));
$res = $ua->request(HTTP::Request->new(GET => "$url_to_get"));
$content = $res->as_string( );
@content = split ("\n", $content);

        foreach $info (@content)
        
        {

        if ($info =~ "Displaying 1 ")
            
            {
                print "$info\n";
            }

        }
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This is what gets written to the cookie file:

cat lwp*
#LWP-Cookies-1.0
Set-Cookie3: BigIPCookie=3658774282.20480.0000; path="/"; domain=tenni
+slink.usta.com; path_spec; expires="2013-12-12 23:07:09Z"; version=0
Set-Cookie3: tennislink.usta.com_Search="Action=2&Keyword=&TournamentI
+D=&SectionDistrict=&City=&State=&Zip=&Month=0&Day=&Year=0&Division=&C
+ategory=&Surface=&OnlineEntry=0&DrawsSheets=0&PageNum=0&UserTime=&San
+ctioned=0&AgeGroup=&SkillLevel_EntryLevel=False&SkillLevel_Intermedia
+te=False&SkillLevel_Advanced=False&SearchRadius=-1&QuickSearch=0&Orde
+rBy=3"; path="/"; domain=tennislink.usta.com; path_spec; expires="201
+4-06-12 18:07:08Z"; version=0
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You can see that the Month and Year values in the tennislink.usta.com cookie are set to zero. (The values for $month and $year are normally entered on the command line).

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

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