Dear Monks,
I have a problem I been struggling with the last week. I am trying to automate the login session to my broadband provider. It is a quite simple form that should be submitted (POSTED) over HTTPS. I have searched and searched for a solution on this problem, but it is still unsolved. Hope your great wisdom are able to help, since I will soon give up.

First the html page to be submitted:
<html>
<head>
<title>Tele2 Bredband</title>
<SCRIPT>

function cancel()

 {
          if(confirm("\nÄr du säker på att du vill avsluta kontoaktive
+ringen?\n\nTryck OK för att avsluta kontoaktiveringen.\nOBS: Ditt kon
+to är ännu inte fullständigt registrerat\noch du kommer därför inte a
+tt kunna använda ditt\nInternetabonnemang.\n\nTryck Avbryt/Cancel för
+ att återgå till kontoaktiveringen."))

   {
   window.location="javascript:self.close()";
   }
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#000099" vlink="#800000" 
+alink="#FFFF00" background="/images/bakgrund.gif">
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<img src="/images/head.gif" height="50" width=490 border=0 alt="Kontoa
+ktivering">


<table>
<tr>
<td nowrap width="122" valign=bottom><img src="/images/px.gif" width=1
+00  height=1 border=0 alt="">&#160;</td>
<td valign="top" width="468"><br>
<font face="arial,helvetica" COLOR="#000099" size="4"><b>LOGGA IN</b><
+/font><br>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1">
<br>
F&ouml;r att b&ouml;rja använda tjänsten m&aring;ste du logga in.<br>
Fyll i ditt Anv&auml;ndar-id och l&ouml;senord.
</font>
<br>
<form name=logonForm method="POST" action="https://login1.swipnet.se/l
+ogin.php">
<p>
<table cellspacing=0 border=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr>
<td>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1">Anv&auml;ndar-id:</font><br>
<input type="text" name="username" value="xxxxx" size="10" maxlength="
+20"><br>
<font face="arial" size="-2">Ex. k-12345</font>
</td>
<td>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1">L&ouml;senord:</font><br>
<input type="password" name="password" value = "yyyyy" size="11" maxle
+ngth="20"><br>
<font face="arial" size="-2">Ex. aBc-2h-j</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1">
Tryck p&aring; knappen <B>&#34;Forts&auml;tt&#34;</B> f&ouml;r att g&a
+ring; vidare.
</font>
<TABLE BORDER=0>
<TR>
<TD>
<input type="submit" STYLE="color: white; background: gray" name="subm
+it" value=
"Forts&auml;tt"></A>
</TD>
<TD width=15></TD>
<TD>
<A HREF="javascript:cancel()"><input type="button" style="color: white
+; background: gray" value=" Avsluta " onClick="cancel()"></A>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<script language="javascript">
  document.logonForm.username.focus();
</script>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

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and my perl code:

use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Debug qw(+);
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->cookie_jar({});
$ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)');
my $req = POST 'https://login1.swipnet.se/login.php', 
[username => 'xxxxx', password => 'yyyyy'];
print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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The result is the following:
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header: Checking login1.swipnet.se for cooki
+es
HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header: Checking .swipnet.se for cookies
HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header: Checking swipnet.se for cookies
HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header: Checking .se for cookies
LWP::UserAgent::send_request: POST https://login1.swipnet.se/login.php
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied
LWP::Protocol::http::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Internal Server Error
500 (Internal Server Error) EOF
Client-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:28:29 GMT

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If I do a GET request to the same URL I get the HTML page attached above back, so the HTTPS session is working. It just seems like the POST is not working. I can perform the login with IE in Windows.

I am using perl 5.8.0, with LWP 5.65 on RedHat 9.0.
Please ask if you need more information!

Thanks in advance
/Johan

In reply to LWP HTTPS POST returns 500 EOF by epljsod

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