Thank you for the clues. Upon investigation, emptying the cookie jar and retrying, the script now generates an error message which says:

./HTTP-Cookies.jar does not seem to contain cookies at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/HTTP/Cookies.pm line 432.

...and the file remains empty, except for this:

#LWP-Cookies-1.0

[download]

It was about this point that I remembered that I had pointed the script once, for testing purposes, at another website--one that I do not own. Evidently, the cookies in the jar remained permanently after that, which was not the behavior I had expected.

I was unable to install the module you recommended, unfortunately. I got only error messages, and it failed to install. Disappointing.

Now, why is it that the cookie jar seems necessary in order to complete the GET request? ... but maybe I'm just misunderstanding the process again.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^2: Why does HTTP::Cookies and/or LWP add Google cookies to my cookie jar when visiting another site? by Polyglot
in thread Why does HTTP::Cookies and/or LWP add Google cookies to my cookie jar when visiting another site? by Polyglot

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