in reply to HTTP::Cookies is saving an empty file

I assume what your trying to achieve is just retrieve the cookies from whatever url you are visiting (because it needs cookies for user sessions ???) I did a similar thing a while back, which may/may not help 
    my $url = shift;
    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
    $ua->timeout(20);
    $ua->agent('Automated agent');
    # with cookie support...
    my $cookies = HTTP::Cookies->new();
    $ua->cookie_jar($cookies);    
    my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
    print STDERR "doing GET request to $url...\n";
    my $res = $ua->request($req);
    my $content = $res->content;        
    my $status = $res->status_line();    
    $ua->cookie_jar->extract_cookies($res);

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HTTP::Cookies is saving an empty file
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 23, 2003 at 01:37 UTC 
    Before you lose all hope be sure that the page you are 
requesting actually sends a cookie. I was sure that mine did
 but IT DIDN'T it was actually an image that was on
 the page that was giving my (netscape) browser a cookie. So
 if you are having a hard time goto the command line and:

GET -ed http://www.google.com

to get the headers and if you dont see something like:

Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=44fae06727e94467:TM=1056331233:LM=1056331233:
S=bt-ZmWiBhxbwpt78; expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT;
 path=/; domain=.google.com

then keep trying pages until you do.
douglasmj1 %%AT%% comcast %%DOT%% net
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