Hi
I'm using perl to automate some testing on a web site.
I use the useragent, however once I have used it to log in to the site, it redirects to the logged in page then promptly seems to drop the cookies that get set to prove the login. Hence when the script follows a link on the page it goes straight to the login page again since logged in status has failed to verify.

Even explicitly setting and saving the cookies on each request, ie 
        $ua->cookie_jar($cookies);
        my $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
        $cookies = $ua->cookie_jar();
seems to fail.

One possibility may be that when the cookies get first set, the page is followed by a redirect, around which I can't effectively grab and explicitly set the cookies. Is it likely that the cookies are being lost there ?

Anyone got any suggestions (it's fairly urgent now of course :)

Thanks

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