thanks a lot for your help. here is my reply though: $ua->redirect(1); causes a run time error. cookies are not being used by the server. -------------------------------------------- key script components: executive and driver ----------------------------------------------------------- 
    # create object
    my $cayman = default_web->new ('NETLOC' => '192.168.1.254',
                   'PORT' => '80',
                   'REALM' => 'Cayman-3000', 
                   'UNAME' => 'admin',
                   'PASSWD' => 'cayman',
                   'DEBUG' => '1',
                   );

    print "get status page\n";
    $cayman->web_get('URL' => "UE/StatTool/show+ip+interfaces");

    sleep 3;
    # grab redirect?
    $cayman->web_get('URL' => "StatTool");



-----------------------------
package default_web;

use LWP qw (:Debug :UserAgent :HTTP);

my $DEBUG = 0; # debug flag

# constructor
sub new {
   my($type) = shift;
   my(%params) = @_;
   my($self) = {};

   # populate self with params
   # need some future error checking here and return failure if not de
+fined
   $self->{"NETLOC"} = $params{"NETLOC"}; # ip address
   $self->{"PORT"} = $params{"PORT"};     # port number
   $self->{"REALM"} = $params{"REALM"};   # Cayman-3000
   $self->{"UNAME"} = $params{"UNAME"};   # user name
   $self->{"PASSWD"} = $params{"PASSWD"}; # password
   $DEBUG = $params{"DEBUG"};

   # Create the user agent object
   $self{'USR_AGENT'} = LWP::UserAgent->new();
   # set authentication credentials
   my $netloc = $self->{"NETLOC"} . ":" . $self->{"PORT"}; # MUST INCL
+UDE PORT
   my $realm = $self->{"REALM"};
   my $uname = $self->{"UNAME"};
   my $passwd = $self->{"PASSWD"}; 
   $self{'USR_AGENT'}->credentials( $netloc,
                    $realm,
                    $uname,
                    $passwd);
   # allow redirection
#   push @{  $self{'USR_AGENT'}->requests_redirectable}, 'POST';


   # set user agent string
   $self{'USR_AGENT'}->agent('robot');


   # create and return object
   bless $self, $type;
   return $self;
}

sub web_post {
    my $self = shift;
    my(%params) = @_;
    $param{'URL'} = $params{'URL'};
    $param{'COMMAND'} = $params{'COMMAND'};


    # Set up a request.  We will use the same request object for all U
+RLs.
    # HTTP is part of LWP
    my $IP = $self->{"NETLOC"};
    my $port = $self->{"PORT"};
    my $url = $param{'URL'};

    my $post = "http://$IP\:$port/$url";
    print "DEBUG: post: $post\n" if ($DEBUG);

    my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $post);
    $request->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    
    my $command = $param{'COMMAND'};
    print "DEBUG: command: $command\n" if ($DEBUG);
    $request->content($command);
    
    # Send the request and get a response back from the server
    $response =  $self{'USR_AGENT'}->request($request);
    my $output = $response->as_string;
    print "DEBUG: output: $output\n" if ($DEBUG);
    return $output;
}

sub web_get {
    my $self = shift;
    my(%params) = @_;
    my $url = $params{'URL'};

    my $IP = $self->{"NETLOC"};
    my $port = $self->{"PORT"};

    my $get = "http://$IP\:$port/$url";
    print "DEBUG: get: $get\n" if ($DEBUG);

    # Set up a request.  We will use the same request object for all U
+RLs.
    $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $get);

    # Send the request and get a response back from the server
    $self{'USR_AGENT'}->redirect_ok($request);
    $response = $self{'USR_AGENT'}->request($request);
    if ($response->is_success) {
    print "DEBUG: get success\n"
    } else {
    print "DEBUG: get failure\n";
    }    
    ($response->is_redirect()? print "is redirect!\n" : print "not red
+irect\n");
    my $output = $response->as_string;
    print $output if ($DEBUG);
    return $output;
}

sub web_clear {
    my $self = shift;

    web_get($self, 'URL' => "UE/ClearOptions");

}


return 1;

==================================
output looks like this:
==================================
get status page
DEBUG: get: http://192.168.1.254:80/UE/StatTool/show+ip+interfaces
DEBUG: get failure
is redirect!
HTTP/1.1 303 See Other
Location: http://192.168.1.254:80/StatTool
Server: Allegro-Software-RomPager/4.03
Content-Length: 0
Client-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:43:43 GMT
Client-Peer: 192.168.1.254:80
Client-Response-Num: 1


DEBUG: get: http://192.168.1.254:80/StatTool
DEBUG: get success
not redirect
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:07:08 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Server: Allegro-Software-RomPager/4.03
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 00:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:07:08 GMT
Client-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:43:46 GMT
Client-Peer: 192.168.1.254:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Refresh: 0; URL=http://192.168.1.254/SmartDevice

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