brothers- my brain hurts. i am sorry that i do not have code to post for approval, but i've not yet made it that far without already stumbling.
i need to retrieve a document from a remote machine through https. my first idea was to look over libwww and see if it fit the bill. the wildcards in the scenario are as follows. the remote file doesnt actually exist. rather its built when a client selects a hyperlink stating "download list as csv file". to boot, access to the page containing this url is username/password protected and after login creates a session id as evidenced in the url which contains a sid=xxxxxxxxxxx
i see that libwww allows for a get(url) however, i am not certain how to attack something that contains a sid or how the login process should be handled. the login is not done via apache htaccess, rather the fields of a form are seemingly handed to a C script or some other language (not perl).
my apologies for the ambiguity, however this really is the gist of my issue and contains all the information that i am able to relate. libwww is brand new to me, LWP is also just as much black magic. any suggestions or road maps on where to start are appreciated.

humbly -c

In reply to Download a remote file via https within a session by c

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