There are a few problems... First off, if you examine the html source you would notice that before the form data is posted, a javascript routine is executed. This routine calls other javascript functions which appear to encrypt you password and username using MD5 digest. And also fill in some other hidden values. Im not familiar with MD5, or javascript so dont know how to solve your delema. But obviously you need to encrypt the data before it is sent.

From the html source 
<!--
// (c) Excite Inc., 1999
// ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
// THE JAVASCRIPT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MD5 FUNCTION WAS DERIVED IN PA
+RT
// BY EXCITE FROM THE RSA DATA SECURITY, INC. MD5 MESSAGE DIGEST ALGOR
+ITHM
// AND IS USED BY PERMISSION.
de>

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Im interested to see if any other monks could figure ot and show us how to use Digest::Perl::MD5 or Digest::MD5 and lwp to automate login.

zzSPECTREz

In reply to Re: LWP/login question by zzspectrez
in thread LWP/login question by Intaglio

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