meta="Refresh"

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
I want to login somewhere to get the state of my account.
The address of this acct.-page is just

https://myaccount.server.com/clx/index.php?part=menu&justloggedin=true
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I use WWW::Mechanize, but I end up at a page with

<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
     content="0;url=index.php?part=menu&justloggedin=true">
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Now I either loose the session, or I just reload exatly this page.
How, the hell, can I go beyond this page, which shows I am successfully logged in

   use WWW::Mechanize;
    my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new( agent => 'Linux Konqueror' );
    $m->get( $url );
    $r = $m->success or die "Can't get this url $url\n\n";
    # login-Page is loaded ..
    my $r = $m->submit_form(
        fields      => {
            $uFld    => $uNme,
            $pFld    => $pPwd
        }
    );
    die "Couldn't submit form" unless $r->is_success;
    # Login was successfull here
    print $r->content # prints this
      #<html><head>
      #<meta http-equiv="Refresh" 
      #content="0;url=index.php?part=menu&justloggedin=true">
      #</head><body><a 
      #href="index.php?part=menu&justloggedin=true"></a></body></html>
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If I do these I loose the session (need to re-login):

    $m->follow_link(n=>0);
    $m->follow_link(n=>1);
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If I try to create the url by my self by
Step 1:

    print join('; ',@{${$m->links()}[0]}),"\n\n";
    print join('; ',@{${$m->links()}[1]}),"\n";
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this gives me:

index.php?part=menu&justloggedin=true; ; ; meta; https://myaccount.ser
+ver.com/clx/index.php; HASH(0x864c5f8)

index.php?part=menu&justloggedin=true; ; ; a; https://myaccount.server
+.com/clx/index.php; HASH(0x86168bc)
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So I just try:

$m->get( 'https://myaccount.server.com/clx/index.php?part=menu&justlog
+gedin=true' )
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and the session is lost => re-login

And even what I have found on Active bugs for WWW-Mechanize (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=12882)

print $m->response->request->uri;
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shows: https://myaccount.server.com/clx/index.php
and that only reloads the first login-form and not what I want.

If I do a reload after submitting the form,

    $m->reload();
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I just reload meta="Refresh.. page

Anybody with an idea how I can get beyond this "meta-page"?

Thanks a lot in advance;
Carl

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Re: meta="Refresh" by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 22, 2006 at 14:23 UTC
You need to load the URL from the META tag, just like a browser would.	[reply]
Re^2: meta="Refresh" by Anonymous Monk on Nov 22, 2006 at 14:31 UTC
Well, I tried, but then I loose the session and I have to do the login again.	[reply]
Re^3: meta="Refresh" by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 22, 2006 at 16:23 UTC
How can you tell you lost the session?	[reply]
Re^4: meta="Refresh" by Anonymous Monk on Nov 22, 2006 at 17:27 UTC
Re^5: meta="Refresh" by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 22, 2006 at 17:48 UTC
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Re: meta="Refresh" by Anonymous Monk on Nov 22, 2006 at 14:03 UTC
We'll need the real url, your login, and password.	[reply]