Hello everybody,

I try to use www::mechanize in order to automate a session with GeoServer.

More information on GeoServer here http://geoserver.org or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoServer

Wikipedia says : GeoServer — an open-source server written in Java — allows users to share, process and edit geospatial data.

GeoServer comes with a REST API, which can be used with curl.But at the moment, it is impossible to create a datastore for ImageMosaicJDBC with the REST API, so i would like to add the new raster data source with a Perl script. it is based on www::mechanize.

but it fails, with this message : your session has expired.

May you help me, please ? the script is just below...

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use HTML::Tree;
use Getopt::Long;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my %CONF = (
         username     => 'admin',
         password     => 'geoserver',
    );

GetOptions( \%CONF, "username=s", "password=s" )or die "Bad options";

my $netloc   = "193.5x.6x.15x:8080";
my $url      = "http://$netloc/geoserver/web/?wicket:bookmarkablePage=
+:org.geoserver.web.GeoServerLoginPage";

my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new;
my $agent      = WWW::Mechanize->new( cookie_jar => $cookie_jar );
$agent->agent('User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:4
+4.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0');

# auth
$agent->get($url);
die $agent->res->status_line unless $agent->success;
$agent->set_fields(%CONF);
$agent->submit;
die $agent->res->status_line unless $agent->success;
print $cookie_jar->as_string;

# adding data store
$url = "http://$netloc/geoserver/web?wicket:bookmarkablePage=:org.geos
+erver.web.data.store.NewDataPage";
my $content = $agent->get($url);
die $agent->res->status_line unless $agent->success;
my $tree    = HTML::Tree->new();
$tree->parse($content);
print $agent->content;

# storeform
$url = "http://$netloc/geoserver/web/?wicket:interface=:5:storeForm::I
+FormSubmitListener::";
my $content = $agent->post($url);
die $agent->res->status_line unless $agent->success;
my $tree    = HTML::Tree->new();
$tree->parse($content);
print $agent->content;

# newdatapage
$url = "http://$netloc/geoserver/web/?wicket:interface=:6::::";
my $ref = "http://$netloc/geoserver/web/?wicket:bookmarkablePage=:org.
+geoserver.web.data.store.NewDataPage";
my $content = $agent->get( $url, referer => $ref);
die $agent->res->status_line unless $agent->success;
my $tree    = HTML::Tree->new();
$tree->parse($content);
print $agent->content;
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I cannot see where the problem comes from... In particular, i used WireShark to inspect the HTTP exchanges, but every thing was ok for me. The JSESSIONID cookie was for example correctly rescueing.

Thanks in advance.

Ernest.