Hi Monks,
I'm trying to automate the process of getting some information from a site that requires authentication to get in (the logging in part I've done).
Once logged in I get presented a page in the browser which I can then click the link I want to get sed information. Looking at the html of the page I get from logging in has snippets like... 
<a href="www.mysite.com?thing={VALUE}">click me</a>

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The {VALUE}, I assume is an environment variable that is sent back after logging in which then gets passed along to the next link when I click it.
My problem is displaying the values of these variables. I've tried dumping the environment variables through ENV, but they're not there?
I'm using LWP::Useragent to login me into the site with HTTPS, is there a LWP method that will print them?
i.e. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
user LWP::Debug qw (+);

#Simplified a little bit as real site requires cookies and url redirec
+tion etc...

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my site = "https://www.secure.com/login";

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $site);
my $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

my $req->content('user=a_user&pass=a_pass');

my $req = $ua->request($req);

if ($res->is_success) {
    print $res->content;
} else {
    print $res->status_line, "\n";
}

#Now how do I dump the var=value pairs from this returned page???

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Thanks for the advice,

Regards Paul

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