Change the while loop 
while ( !$username || !$password )

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to 
until ( $username and $password )

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Now try this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict qw/refs/;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';
use HTTP::Cookies;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw/POST GET/;

my $username = 'Login';
my $password = 'pass';

until ( $username and $password ) {
    print "\nAkamai Administrator credentials\n", 
        "$username\n",
        "$password \n";
    chomp( $username, $password );
}

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
    cookie_jar            => HTTP::Cookies->new,
    requests_redirectable => [],
    timeout               => 10,
    agent => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) 
                  Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0"
);

my $target;
my $req = GET 'https://control.akamai.com/EdgeAuth/login.jsp';
if ( $ua->request($req)->as_string =~ m["TARGET_URL" value="(.*)" />\n
+] ) {
    $target = $1;
}
else {
    print "Can't proceed without: TARGET_URL\n";
    exit;
}

$req = POST 'https://control.akamai.com/EdgeAuth/userLogin',
  [
    login      => "Log In",
    TARGET_URL => $target,
    username   => $username,
    password   => $password
  ];

$req = GET 'https://control.akamai.com/home/view/main';
print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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In reply to Re: LWP::UserAgent Trying to automate session authentication by Khen1950fx
in thread LWP::UserAgent Trying to automate session authentication by mhearse

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