in reply to Can't call method "extract_cookies" on an undefined value

In your code, $cookie_jar is declared, but never assigned.

So, it croaks when you try to call a method on it.

I think you need: 

$ua->cookie_jar ($cookie_jar={}); # instead of $ua->cookie_jar ( {} );

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Re^2: Can't call method "extract_cookies" on an undefined value
by Todd Chester (Scribe) on Oct 17, 2015 at 05:39 UTC

    That helped. Now I am getting an even sillier error:

    Can't call method "extract_cookies" on unblessed reference at ./GetJavaTest.pl line 53 (#1)

    changing line 53 to:

    $cookie_jar->HTTP::Cookies::extract_cookies($response);

    give the same error:

     Can't call method "HTTP::Cookies::extract_cookies" on unblessed reference at ./GetJavaTest.pl line 53.

    What is an "unblessed reference" anyway?

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      When I look at the web page it downloads, I find

      writeSessionCookie( 'oraclelicense', 'accept-securebackup-cookie' );

      in it

      Be nice if I could just add the cookie directly, like I can do with wget.

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                   $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
           $ua->cookie_jar ($cookie_jar={});  # instead of  $ua->cooki
+e_jar ( 
        +{} );
           $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', "$RevAddr" );
           print "\$request = ", $request, "\n";
           print Dumper ($request), "\n";

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          $request = HTTP::Request=HASH(0x1080540)
        $VAR1 = bless( {
                         '_content' => '',
                         '_uri' => bless( do{\(my $o = 'http://www.ora
+cle.com/
        +technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1880261.html
+')}, 'UR
        +I::http' ),
                         '_headers' => bless( {}, 'HTTP::Headers' ),
                         '_method' => 'GET'
                       }, 'HTTP::Request' );

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        What am I doing wrong?

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