Bretheren, I have been given a bash shell script which uses wget to access a secure Web application for my company. I am trying to port the same thing into Perl so that I can do some serious parsing on the data and distribute the utility within my department. I have successfully installed LWP and openssl and have a script with connects to the login application. The response message shows that the login application is waiting for my data (so I know I have a valid secure socket). I have looked over the LWP and HTTP man pages and I cannot find how to implement the wget switches in LWP. Does anybody have a guide or an example of how the following switches should be implemented with an HTTP request message? --no-check-certificate --http-user --http-password --keep-session-cookies --post-data --user-agent I am using full-blown LWP (use LWP::UserAgent;). I would like to take the time to get this working completely in Perl instead of invoking wget since this needs to work across several systems. Thanks in advance for any insights.

In reply to Porting wget commandline switches to LWP by Anonymous Monk

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