I've been trying to automate a logon to a message board.

I've tried with WWW::Automate and with LWP::UserAgent, and they should follow HTTP redirects, shouldn't they?

However when I supply the correct username and password the status code I get back from submitting the automated form (WWW:Automate) or creating the request content myself (LWP:UA) is "301 Moved permanently" and the content is just <!-- Vignette V/5 Wed Dec 03 05:07:08 2003 -->.

Any ideas what's going on?

It is possible to use this form without JavaScript by the way. 


($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
 =~y~b-v~a-z~s;                             print

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In reply to Can't Automate Login To System by Cody Pendant

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