Dear Monks,

I am having problems with a Moo class I am trying to write inside a Dancer2 web application.

This web app talks to another web app (this one built with Catalyst), a copy of which is also running on my development PC.

I have seen a lot of advice to use WWW::Mechanize for any slightly more complicated web page wrangling. Now, I'm inheriting an LWP::UserAgent object from my module's parent class, which has the appropriate session cookie to log into the other web app (the Catalyst one) in order to fetch a very tiny, simple JSON document. But when I try to connect to the Catalyst web app in my code, I always just get redirected to the login page.

I expected LWP::UserAgent to just be able to get the JSON document with its transparent cookie handling facility, but it can't. I've checked and it does seem to be sending the cookie, but again, I just get the login page.

Of course, it all works fine in my browser (Firefox). It's enterprise software so I can't do anything like hard code credentials (not a great idea anyway) or grab the cookie from my Firefox store.

Is there a way to grab the cookie jar off the LWP::UserAgent object and hand it over to a WWW::Mechanize object?

Or simply to 'promote' my inherited LWP::UserAgent object to a WWW::Mechanize object?

In reply to Pass cookie jar between LWP::UserAgent and WWW::Mechanize objects by Dumu

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