Hello Everyone, I have a tricky (for me atleast) problem 1. I have to login to a website which is secured (https) using userid and password via BASIC authentication 2. I have to get the session from the login page and use that session to call one more page to upoad a file since the login page requires authentication and it redirects to login page. 3. The upload page returns a text file which i have to download? and read the conents and do some data processing. LoginPage: https://mysite.com/login.do UploadPage: https://mysite.com/fileupload.do I have been trying using the LWP but with no luck. Also i am behind a proxy server and whenever i try to execute my script, I always get the following:

LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::simple_request: POST https://mysite.com/login.do
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Proxied to http://user:pwd@proxy_server:port
HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header: Checking mysite.com for cookies
HTTP::Cookies::add_cookie_header: Checking .com for cookies
LWP::Protocol::http::request: ()
LWP::Protocol::http::request: POST https://mysite.com/login.do HTTP/1.0
Host: mysite.com
Proxy-Authorization: Basic h2DrWXxyOcthqnRoaUz=
User-Agent: libwww-perl/5.53
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

LWP::Protocol::http::request: reading response
LWP::Protocol::http::request: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Refresh: 0; URL=https://mysite.com/login.do

<HTML></HTML>
LWP::Protocol::http::request: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
LWP::Protocol::collect: read 15 bytes
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: OK


I dont see any error but always the 200 OK message as seen above Below is the code module 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::Debug qw(+);

my $upload_url = 'https://mysite.com/fileupload.do';
my $login_url = 'https://mysite.com/login.do';

&postHTTPS();

sub postHTTPS
{ 
    my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new;    #HTTP::Cookies->new(autosa
+ve => 1)
    $cookie_jar->clear;    
    my $action = POST ($login_url);
    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent(keep_alive=>1,env_proxy => 0);
    $ua->proxy(['http','https'] => 'http://user:pwd@proxy_server:port'
+);
    $ua->env_proxy();
    $ua->cookie_jar($cookie_jar);  
    my $request  = new HTTP::Request ("GET" => $login_url ); 
    my $response = $ua->request($action);
    if ($response->is_error())
    {
        printf " %s\n", $response->status_line;
        print "https request error!\n";
    }else {
        my $content = $response->content();        
    }
    if ( $response->is_success ) {
     #   print $response->as_string;        
    }else {
        #print $response->status_line;
        print "\nFailure!\n";
    }
}

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The above code is only to login. I am not sure how to get the session cookie from that login page and pass to the download page (code not written yet) I had also asked similar question at http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=645153 i got some responses but still I have a problem Is this scenario achievable in PERL? I am now learning this LWP and related modules since i am new to these Can you one help me in this regard? Thanks a lot in advance Regards, Karthik

In reply to How to authenticate and upload file to a secured server by KarthikK

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