Dear Monks,...

Please I ask for you patience and wisdom...

I have this script; 
require LWP::UserAgent;
 
 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 $ua->timeout(10);
 $ua->env_proxy;
 
 my $response = $ua->get('http://toolsview/bcp_tool/');
 
 if ($response->is_success) {
     print $response->content;  # or whatever
 }
 else {
     die $response->status_line;
 }

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the output I get is; 
<html>
<head>
<title>BCP Administrator Console</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+">
</head>
<frameset rows="90,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0" col
+s="*">
  <frame name="top" scrolling="NO" noresize src="top.asp" frameborder=
+"NO" >
  <frame name="main" src="logon.asp">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
</body>
</noframes>
</html>

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Which is a web page that requests users to login (i.e. to insert a user ID and a password then click on the 'Login' button).

My question is, can I automate the login process using Perl and how would I be able to do this? - This is only a prelude to more complicated things to come with LWP - and I will continue to read LWP documentation. However the answer to my enquiry will be a good spring board to launch me into Web programming.

Thanks

In reply to My first LWP script by Anonymous Monk

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