Hi again, I took your advice and managed to get together a script for my request. here is what I have so far sorry, i don't really know how to configure this post..so it's kind of messy 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $digits;

open( FILE, "< /tmp/blah.txt" ) or die "Can't open $filename : $!";
while( <FILE> ) {
$digits = $_;
print "Attempting line: " . $digits;

k_go_now($digits);

# Sleep to keep us slightly more hidden and load off their servers
sleep(1);
}

# k go now sub; grabs input from file ($username, $password) tries to 
+login
sub k_go_now
{
my ($digits) = @_;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");

# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'https://xxx');
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('query=libwww-perl&mode=dist');

# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);

# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
check_output ($res->content);
}
else {
print $res->status_line, "\n";
}
}

# suib check_output checks the response from the website and if it's a
+ny good
sub check_output
{
my ($output) = @_;

if ($output =~ /Login Failed/)
{
print "Nope, failed login\n";
} elsif ($output =~ /Login Successful/)
{
print "got'em with login details\n";
} else
{
print "unknown response !!!\n$output\n\n";
}
}

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I'm pretty sure it's all good but I cant help but think that I screwed up somewhere with the syntax, could you guys point me in the right direction please? When I run it, it says Line 7 is a possible typo. Thanks -sjlo

In reply to Where did I go wrong? by sjlo

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