I want to get the content of a web page at a specific remote HTTP URL into a scalar.

I setup a script using LWP::UserAgent to do this, but it did not work because the server that the page is on requires the HTTP client to accept a cookie. It appears that LWP::UserAgent does not do this by default.

My code is as follows: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)");
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => 'http://groups.yahoo.com/group/some
+group/message/1243';

my $res = $ua->request($req);

if ($res->is_success) {
  my $pagecontent = $res->content;
} else {
 print "Bad luck this time\n";
}

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Is it possible to tell LWP::UserAgent to accept a cookie? If not, is there another way of doing what I am trying to do?

In reply to LWP::UserAgent and Cookies by tomazos

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