I want to be able to check a secure page that I login to to access some data. First off, the page is here: https://www.mbnanetaccess.com/NASApp/NetAccess/RegisteredAccountsDisplay?&ehn=670 The account login page is on the front page: http://www.mbna.com/ The login is done via POST. So this is what I've tried: 
$url = "https://www.mbnanetaccess.com/NASApp/NetAccess/Login";

$browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$browser->timeout(10);

@fields = [username => 'myusername',
           password => 'mypassword'
           ];

my $response = $browser->post($url,@fields);

if ($response->is_error())
{
    printf "Error!";
    printf "%s\n", $response->status_line;
}
$contents = $response->content();
print $contents;

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But this returns nothing in the contents (but it does not error, which leads me to believe that it logged in correctly). When I login with my real browser, the POST redirects me to a new page at https://www.mbnanetaccess.com/NASApp/NetAccess/RegisteredAccountsDisplay?&ehn=670 which is where I want to extract some information. However, I'm unsure about how this redirect is passed down to the browser. Also, there must some sort of secure session state that is carried along, but again, I'm not sure where it is. Is there some tool that will allow me to see the primitive GETS, POSTS, session states etc. when I login with my real browser? So that I can mimic this with perl? Anyone have other suggestions?

In reply to Secure Sessions and HTTPS by jamesjyu

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