When I do an http Post (as below) or even a get after logging into to a protected page the output is an HTTP 303. How do I handle the redirect with my web client script so that my script goes right to the url in the location header of the 303 response? Do I also need to do something special so that my web session remains open and I won't need to re-login to grab the page I'm redirected to? 
package default_web;
require LWP;
require LWP::Debug;


    @ISA = qw(LWP::UserAgent);

    my $netloc;
    my $realm;
    my $uname;
    my $pass;
    my $web_url;

# Create the user agent object
$ua = default_web->new;

#pretend these are  defined
$ua->credentials($netloc, $realm, $uname, $pass);

# Set up a request.  We will use the same request object for all URLs.
$request = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://192.168.1.254/Forms/MyAc
+countConfirm');
$request->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

$request->content('NST_1stWANPortAuthName=user&NST_NewPassword=pwd&NST
+_RepeatPassword=pwd');

# Send the request and get a response back from the server
    $response = $ua->request($request);
print $response->as_string;

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In reply to libwww and grab redirect by jweden

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