I'm writing a little script that is required to log in to Yahoo's mail and clear out the bulk folder. The problem is I can't seem to get it to log in...

my $request = $ua->get("https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=fpct
+x&.done=http://www.yahoo.com");
    $cookie_jar->extract_cookies($request);

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This part works fine, it grabs the cookies and writes out to a file like it's supposed to (under HTTP::Cookies). It's when I try and use a POST string to actually do the logging in that it just won't work.
$postString = 'https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?' . "$postString";
    
    my $request = $ua->get($postString);

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There's my login string (it works manually), but when I dump the page content into an html file and open it, it tells me my browser is blocking cookies.
I've looked all over cpan.org and different modules documentation and I just can't seem to figure out exactly what I'm supposed to do :( Please help me out!

In reply to Small problem with handling cookies by roryne

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