zby gellyfish,

Thanks for the insights. Not quite there yet. I think it boils down to the way I'm using the required cookie. Here's the code again:

1:use LWP::Simple;
2:use LWP::UserAgent;
3:use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
4:use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET);
5:use HTTP::Cookies;
6:$url = 'http://www.biocarta.com/search/gene.asp?';
7:my $request = POST "$url",
8:[
9:ID1 => 48852, 10:]
11:my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
12:my $response = $ua->request($request);
13:print $response->as_string;

14:'Okay. Let's set up a cookie jar, and extract the cookie 15:my $cjar = HTTP::Cookies->new(file => 'cookies.txt',
autosave => 1);
16:$cjar->extract_cookies($response);

17:'As per your suggestions
18:my $req2 = GET "$url";
19:$cjar->add_cookie_header($req2);
20:$ua->redirect_ok($req2);
21:$response2 = $ua->request($req2);
22:print $response2->as_string;

As is it, it returns the genesrchresults.asp webpage, but without the search results (before, it returned undef). If I use $request on line 21 instead of $req2 it returns a 'Doh! page cannot be displayed error blah blah'

Any more ideas?

pDuffy.

In reply to ReRe: Accessing dynamic webpages by pduffy
in thread Accessing dynamic webpages by pduffy

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