Perl to Extract POST Method data from a URL

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

Hi All, I was able learn and understand use LWP::UserAgent... But guys now i'm struck up in another place... Actually i have to first login to https://secure.mycompany.com/malaysia/login.asp and then after login the page redirects to main.asp and from there the original page is data_fetch.asp where i need to pass the serialnumber and submit the form and get data... The problem i'm having is "How to handle this login page??" because the data_fetch.asp is using session and i need to manage the session.... Can you guys help me how to handle login.asp and data_fetch.asp at single pl script to get data?????????

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Re: Perl to Extract POST Method data from a URL by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 27, 2007 at 11:28 UTC
You can extract POST data with CGI. You can access a foreign web page with LWP::Simple or LWP::UserAgent. The extraction of the desired data strongly depends on how the data is presented, you need to describe that a bit better if you want us to help you. Perl 6 in German -- Difficult Sudoku	[reply]
Re: Perl to Extract POST Method data from a URL by gam3 (Curate) on Aug 27, 2007 at 12:01 UTC
I think that all you need to do is add a line like `$ua->proxy(’http’, ’http://proxy.sn.no:8001/’);` [download] to your script. -- gam3 A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl to Extract POST Method data from a URL by rvosa (Curate) on Aug 27, 2007 at 11:30 UTC
Can anyone give me an sample to do this.. To do what exactly? Your question is hopelessly convoluted. What do you have so far?	[reply]