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in thread how to upload a file to a secured website?

Hi,
as said, install the two modules mentined above. Then do
perl -MWWW::Mechanize::Shell -eshell
You will end up in that shell. Type help for help, then e.g. type connect http://bla.bla to connect to that URL.
Make your way through the pages (it's a bit like using a text browser). Remember: help is at hand
When you have what you wanted to do, type
script myscript
After quitting the shell (the Mechanize-Shell), you find a file called myscript in your directory that contains the code that will do exactly what you did in the shell. This page should help you.
update: passing Apache Basic Auth. creditial with WWW::Mechanize? has some information on the auth part of your problem
Regards,
svenXY

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Re^4: how to upload a file to a secured website?
by weismat (Friar) on Oct 16, 2007 at 13:35 UTC
    I would suggest that you should try simple LWP first and if you realize that the authentication is complex (more than just setting user and password in the standard brower user/password window) to use WWW::Mechanize. Your code should look like this: require LWP::UserAgent; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->timeout(10); $ua->proxy('https', 'ftp', 'http://proxy.sn.no:8001/'); $ua->credentials( 'servername:portnumber', 'realm-name', 'username' => 'password' ); Have a look at http://lwp.interglacial.com/ch11_03.htm. If you use Windows, then you may also have issues with the SSL module as it is not always included in the distribution.
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