Re^6: How do I access a password protected site and access data?

Hi,

Yes I ignored it and installed, but a test using the script that you so kindly provided, resulted in a strange error:

"No such field 'username' at /location/of/perl/modules/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1169"

So, ignoring the 'make run' error was probably not a good idea. Thanks for the link to the turorial. BTW, I got my script working using LWP, so I'm going to postpone investigating Mechanize for later.

I had to specify the content-type as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" in the header and send the username and password as content to get it to work.
A friend of mine suggested that I do this as he said the server might be ignoring the login info when sent as form data

Thanks for all your help! I have learnt a lot trying to write this script!

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Re^7: How do I access a password protected site and access data? by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2005 at 22:02 UTC
Hi, Double check the number of forms on the page you are working with. If you just change the URL in the example I posted the form number may be wrong. Hope this helps Martin	[reply]