in reply to Porting wget commandline switches to LWP

To expand a bit on the reply by Anonymous Monk, you will need to find out what the wget command line switches do and then implement that in Perl.

As a first start, I recommend WWW::Mechanize over using LWP::UserAgent directly, because WWW::Mechanize behaves more like a browser. The --http-user and --http-password switches sound to me like basic authentication, and I'm sure that LWP has something for basic authentication. --post-data will have to be supplied by you in a HTTP::Request::POST object, or, if you're using WWW::Mechanize, might simply come from a ->submit call. --user-agent is in WWW::Mechanize.

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Re^2: Porting wget commandline switches to LWP
by Gangabass (Vicar) on Dec 19, 2007 at 09:34 UTC

    WWW::Mechanize is a subclass of LWP::UserAgent - so can use all of its methods.

    You can do something like: 
    my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$agent->credentials($uri->host_port, "TheRealm", "user", "pass");

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    See LWP::UserAgent for details on credentials.

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