Hi, i'm trying to log in a phpbb forum with Perl using LWP::UserAgent. Here's what i tried : 
#!"C:\perl\bin\perl.exe"
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "cookie2.txt",autosave => 1
+,));
my $url_base = "http://www.host.com/login.php";
my $response = $ua->get($url_base);
my $contenu = $response->content;
$content =~ s/\n//g;#extracting session id
my @sids = split(/sid=/,$content);
my $id;
shift(@sids);
foreach $id(@sids){
    $id =~ s!"(.*)!!;
}
my $res = $ua->post ($url_base.'?sid='.$sids[0],[username => 'myUserNa
+me', password=>'myPassword',login=>'Connexion']);

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i also tried WWW::Mechanize. Every time i launch my script, the host login page answers "bad login or password" (i checked the l/p i sent, they do work when sent via Firefox.) i captured the http headers of a succesful login connection made via firefox to understand: 
http://www.host.com/login.php?sid=bfa659dd671fec73949f2f711a6c72d6

POST /login.php?sid=bfa659dd671fec73949f2f711a6c72d6 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.host.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.13) 
+Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
+,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.host.com/index.php
Cookie: eb033c292a139b620ecb662dda3f1a1b=-; mosvisitor=1; phpbb2mysql_
+data=a%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22autologinid%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3Bs%3A6%3
+A%22userid%22%3Bi%3A-1%3B%7D; phpbb2mysql_sid=bfa659dd671fec73949f2f7
+11a6c72d6
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 49
username=myUserName&password=myPassword&login=Connexion
HTTP/1.x 302 OK
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:16:46 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.34 Ben-SSL/1.55
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.8
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22autologinid%22%3Bs
+%3A0%3A%22%22%3Bs%3A6%3A%22userid%22%3Bs%3A3%3A%22190%22%3B%7D; expir
+es=Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:16:47 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: phpbb2mysql_sid=bfa659dd671fec73949f2f711a6c72d6; path=/
Location: http://www.host.com/index.php?sid=bfa659dd671fec73949f2f711a
+6c72d6
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=200
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

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i seem to post the good params at the good place. i don't see where i'm wrong :/

In reply to LWP::UserAgent can't login to phpbb forum by mnem0

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