Storing temporary session cookies

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

Hello,

I'm writing a Perl script to automate the creation of an image database of grocery items from vons.com.

When I attempt to retrieve images from the vons.com search pages, it requires entering a zip code before yielding search results.

To get around this, I am currently using wget --load-cookies with my cookies.txt file from mozilla firefox, but it redirects me to the same page for entering the zip code. I suspect its a problem with session cookies, but I'm not sure. Are there any ways to store the session cookies to file so I can perform my image searches? Thanks in advance.

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Re: Storing temporary session cookies by fenLisesi (Priest) on Apr 28, 2007 at 09:03 UTC
WWW::Mechanize may help. Cheers.	[reply]
Re: Storing temporary session cookies by akho (Hermit) on Apr 28, 2007 at 12:21 UTC
HTTP::Cookies will also help if you need to accept cookies with WWW::Mechanize. `use WWW::Mechanize; my $cookies = HTTP::Cookies->new(autosave => 1, file => 'cookies.dat'); my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1, cookie_jar => $cookies);` [download] then use `$mechanize`; it should have all the cookies from `cookies.dat`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]