A quick Google for "WWW::Mechanize cookies" found an article by Chris Ball as the first result. I quote:

As a note for your own experiments, WWW::Mechanize supports cookies - in that the requestor is a normal LWP::UserAgent object - but they aren't enabled by default. If you need to support cookies, then your script should call "use HTTP::Cookies; $agent->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new);" on your agent object in order to enable session-volatile cookies for your own code.

Cheers,

Brent

NOTE: I haven't used cookies with WWW::Mechanize, but I've used them with LWP. So take this post with a grain of salt.

I have used them and it works exactly as dorko's answer explain.

Best regards

-lem, but some call me fokat

I use cookies with WWW::Mechanize, but not only saving cookies for the session, saving cookies for later sessions as set by the site's "remember me on this computer"* checkbox.

my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new(
    cookie_jar => {
        file     => "$ENV{HOME}/.cookies.txt",
        autosave => 1
    }
);
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That script logged into the NY Times two years ago and has stayed logged in ever since.

* It should be "remember me on this computer with this browser" of course, but what the hell...

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($_='kkvvttuu bbooppuuiiffss qqffssmm iibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

I believe that the quoted paragraph is no longer true about WWW::Mechanize. Mech creates a session-based cookie jar by default now. You need to override that only if you want an on-disk cookie jar, or no cookies at all.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;
$login = "http://xmradio.com?&username=buddyq&password=password";
$cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new(
                                 file     => "$ENV{'HOME'}/cookie.dat"
+,
                                 autosave => 1);
$mechanize=WWW::Mechanize->new(cookie_jar => {$cookie_jar});
$mechanize->get($login);
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