Hi,

I finally was able to get the code running for login to a site (thanks to some anonymous person's help). The way I do it is that I parse the form, populate login information and send it with cookies. I get the following error when I set the cookie.

Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_generic" at D:/Perl/site/lib/URI/WithBase.pm line 41. I printed out debug statements to find out where the problem occurs which is Step 12 (after the statement (print "55\n"'). Can someone please tell me what possibly could go wrong?


use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTML::Form;
use LWP;
use URI;
require 'dumpvar.pl';

my $LOGIN = ''; # put your login name here
my $PASSWD = '';# password here

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); # Step 1
$ua->agent('Mozilla'); # habit

my $url = 'http://www.genesisreports.com/genesis/user/login.asp'; # St
+ep 2
my $login_req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url); # Step 2
my $login_res = $ua->request($login_req); # Step 3
my $html = $login_res->content;

my $form = HTML::Form->parse($html,'http://www.genesisreports.com/gene
+sis/user/login.asp'); # Step 4
dumpValue(\$form); # Step 5
$form->value('artist',$LOGIN); # Step 6
$form->value('albumcode',$PASSWD); # Step 6
my $req = $form->click; # Step 7
print "11\n";
my $res = $ua->request($req); # Step 8
print "22\n";
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new(); # Step 9
$cookie_jar->extract_cookies($res); # Step 9
print "33\n";
my $goto = $res->header('location'); # Step 10
print "44\n";
my $new_req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $goto); # Step 11
print "55\n";
$cookie_jar->add_cookie_header($new_req); # Step 12
print "66\n";
my $new_res = $ua->request($new_req); # Step 13
print "77\n";
# All done or you could keep going.
# Parse this page for forms, URL's, or data
# and have fun:)

print $new_res->headers_as_string,"\n\n";
print $new_res->content,"\n";

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