Hi,

I found this script in Linux Mag 56.

Is it still valid?

I get a 500 error.

Thank you.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strictly; 
useLWP::UserAgent; 
use HTML::Form; 

# personal settings 
my($user, $pass) = qw(BooK S3kr3t); 
my $base = 'http://www.perlmonks.org/'; 

# agent initialization 
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linu
+x 2.2.16 i686; Nav)' ); 

# creation of the request 
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => "${base}index.pl?node=login" ); 

# run the request and get the response 
my $res = $ua->request($req); 
die $res->status_line if not $res->is_success; 

# the login form is the second form on the page 
my $form = ( HTML::Form->parse( $res->content, $base ) )[1]; 

# fill in the fields 
$form->find_input('user')->value($user); 
$form->find_input('passwd')->value($pass); 

# validate and return the form 
$ua->request( $form->click );

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(code tags added by Discipulus)

In reply to About lwp::useragent by pmaeght

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