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in thread How do I access a password protected site and access data?

Obviously I'm doing something wrong... as that didn't work. Do I need to create an HTTP::Headers object first?
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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;
    and add:
    use LWP;
    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;
    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