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If the server says you need either MSIE or Netscape ver x.x you have to fake you use it: $ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)');
You do not have to fiddle with cookies that much. After you give the $ua the cookie jar you do not have to worry.

The parameters should tno be POSTed to the script, they should be passed in the query string:

use CGI::Enurl;
my $request = GET $url_search . '?' . enurl {
        QRY => 'res',
        BV_SessionID => $sessID,
        BV_EngineID => $engID,
        new_search => 'true',
        NAM => 'Griffin',
        GIV => '',
        LOC => '',
        STR => '',
        PCD => 'BT',
        limit => '50',
        CallingPage => 'Homepage',
    };
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The site sends a malformated cookie that is not remembered by LWP::UserAgent. Therefore you have to send it with the last request explicitely:

$request = GET $url_search . '?' . enurl {
        QRY => 'res',
        NAM => 'Griffin',
        lci => '0',
        PCD => 'BT',
        start_id => '50',
        CallingPage => 'Homepage',
    },
    'Set-Cookie' => "'BV_IDS=$engID:$sessID; path=;";
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The URL for the searching is not ".../dq_locationfinder.jsp". It's the ".../dq_home.jsp" itself. ".../dq_locationfinder.jsp" only serves for finding the location on a graphical map.

After all these changes the script worked fine for me. You may find it at http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl/BT_search.pl.txt.

HTH, Jenda

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Requesting webpages which use cookies and session ids. (rev) by Jenda
in thread Requesting webpages which use cookies and session ids. (rev) by Baz

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