I am wanting to automate a login to a SSL website. I was advised to use WWW::Mechanize for this task. I have successfully created test scripts that login to basic authentication websites. I live in New Zealand and am wanting to access Telecom Jetstream usage information via a script rather than manually keying in information. I followed the following link (http://johnbokma.com/perl/https.html) to install Crypt::SSLeay which worked perfectly. However I am unable to be redirected to this page. 

my $url = "https://www.telecom.co.nz/xtralogin.fcc?TYPE=33554433&REALM
+OID=06-0005cc45-3c3e-1f6c-93b5-80edbce40000&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METH
+OD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=$SM$bPLaid7UiFr%2fcTQchTKdU5ckPa0CnhjCk2Zds2Wopak%
+3d&TARGET=$SM$https%3a%2f%2fwww%2etelecom%2eco%2enz%2fjetstreamum%2fx
+tra";
my $mechanize = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);
$mechanize->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new);
$mechanize->get($url);
$mechanize->form_name('Login');
$mechanize->field('USER','digger');
$mechanize->field('PASSWORD','testpass');
$mechanize->click();
my $page = $mechanize->content;
open (FH, ">usage.html");
print FH $page;
close(FH);

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Am i on the right track? Are there some websites that just won't allow this automation? Thank you very much for your time

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