Stupid I know (read on),

Want to propogate through a biomedical website retrieving information. Here is a portion of code: 
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use URI::URL;
$url = 'http://<website>/search/gene.asp?';
my $req = POST "$url",
[
ID1 => 48852,
]
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$result = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
print $result;

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(Ultimately ID1 will simply be a variable from another part of the program).

Now the problem is, is that it creates a dynamic ASP webpage http://<website>/search/genesrchresults.asp. BUT, you cannot access this directly.

From the script code above $result contains: 
HTTP/1.1 302 (Found) Object moved
Cache-Control: private
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:40:33 GMT
Location: genesrchresults.asp
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Content-Length: 140
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:00:33 GMT
Client-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:38:42 GMT
Client-Peer: 63.108.93.17:80
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDCQTTATSB=JKFMHMDBGODCKACLGPAPBLMB; path=/
Title: Object moved

<head><title>Object moved</title></head>
<body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This object may be found <a HREF="genesrchr
+esults.asp">here</a>.</body>

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Well, we get a cookie that changes each time the script is run.

Can (and how can) this cookie be used to extract the required information from genesrchresults.asp?

Regards,

pDuffy

In reply to Accessing dynamic webpages by pduffy

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