Re: How do I access a password protected site and access data?

This will do the trick (LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request):

# define user agent
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->agent("USER/AGENT/IDENTIFICATION");

# make request
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $URI);

# authenticate
$request->authorization_basic($user, $pass);

# except response
my $response = $ua->request($request);
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Re^2: How do I access a password protected site and access data? by jaydon (Novice) on Jun 28, 2005 at 17:49 UTC
Obviously I'm doing something wrong... as that didn't work. Do I need to create an HTTP::Headers object first?	[reply]
Re^3: How do I access a password protected site and access data? by shiza (Hermit) on Jun 28, 2005 at 18:17 UTC
Try dropping these use statements: `use LWP::Simple; use HTTP::Request; use HTTP::Cookies;` [download] and add: `use LWP;` [download] so your script will look something like this: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use LWP; use LWP::UserAgent; my $URI = 'https://www.domain.com/protected_realm'; my $user = 'foo'; my $pass = 'bar'; # define user agent my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); $ua->agent("USER/AGENT/IDENTIFICATION"); # make request my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $URI); # authenticate $request->authorization_basic($user, $pass); # except response my $response = $ua->request($request); # get content of response my $content = $response->content(); # do whatever you need to do with the content here print $content; exit; [download] It would be wise to add error checking in there as well. :) Also, check out the docs for LWP here: LWP And the LWP::UserAgent docs for your cookie related needs: LWP::UserAgent	[reply] [d/l] [select]