OK, first off: IT IS EXTREMELY BONEHEADED TO POST YOUR LOGIN AND PASSWORD TO A PUBLIC WEB SITE.

Ehem. Now that that's out of the way, you need to examine the reply and make sure you're not getting passed back some sort of cookie once you've successfully logged in. Since you're not saving it off most likely you're getting bounced back to the login page each time.

Update: As Ovid remarked, stupid things have been done in the past (and will more than likely be done again in the future); better safe than getting someone cracked or rooted or what not . . . . At any rate, check out perldoc lwptut for info on how to save cookies, or check out WWW::Mechanize as [id://diatalevi] points out.

Update 2: Wait, you do have a cookie jar (I missed that in my haste to chastize :). Hrmm, maybe I should just go take a nap.

In reply to Re: LWP and Site Logins by Fletch
in thread LWP and Site Logins by debiandude

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