Hi,

I'm writing a program for my own personal use that will grab stuff from various webpages and display just what I want so I can set it as my homepage and get my stock information, latest sports news, headlines, etc. all in one place everytime I startup IE. For this reason I'm trying to get this program to login to my excite.com page and grab that info from it. This is what I have so far: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use HTTP::Request::Common qw( POST );
use LWP::UserAgent;

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = POST 

'http://reg.excite.com/mps/login?a=a&pname=pfp&brand=excite&targeturl=
+http://www.excite.com/&ml_id=link:xcit:1008:i:',
     [ acctname => 'Intaglio', passwd => '******' ];
my $res = $ua->request($req)->content;

if ($res->is_success) {
     print $res->content;
} else {
     print $res->error_as_HTML;
}

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The only problem is that it displays just a blank white page. Can anyone send a few helpful hints my way? Is it a problem that the page I'm sending the post information to is http://reg.excite.com/mps/login?a=a&pname=pfp&brand=excite&targeturl=http://www.excite.com/&ml_id=link:xcit:1008:i: or would that make a difference so long as its the correct page you can login to? There's also quite a bit of javascript password encryption on the login page, could this be a hindrance of my script?

Is what I want to do even possible?

Any help would be appreciated,

-- Intaglio

In reply to LWP/login question by Intaglio

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