HTTP session Problem

avi_2009 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Guys: I have written a perl script which queries a REST web service. My problem is script logs in and out pretty fine but after i login, i try to fire queries. For each query, i got this result back - <ns2:status xmlns:ns2="urn:status" xmlns:ns3="urn:path">sessionExpired</ns2:status> My user agent code -

# Create a user agent object
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$cache = $ua->conn_cache(LWP::ConnCache->new( ));
$ua->conn_cache->total_capacity(undef);
$ua->agent("MyApp/1.3");
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I thought cache is going to solve the problem but it didn't. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance --Avi

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Re: HTTP session Problem by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 24, 2009 at 15:02 UTC
The sessions are most likely implemented by some sort of cookie so you need to give your agent instance a cookie jar (see HTTP::Cookies and friends) or use WWW::Mechanize which handles that kind of thing for you. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]
Re^2: HTTP session Problem by avi_2009 (Novice) on Feb 24, 2009 at 15:40 UTC
Hi Fletch: That was awesome. Thank you so much. I just made the following change. I hope this is going to help others in future - `$mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( agent => 'wonderbot 1.01' );` [download] And used $mech to POST and GET URLs! --Avi	[reply] [d/l]