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in reply to problem loggin into pm

Make it: 
  passwd   => substr($pass,0,8),

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And it should work.

I d/l'd your script and ran into the same frustration ... Everything looked good compared to mech-dump 'http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=109' and browser/ViewScource ... tried removing the cookie jar, changing the agent, etc.

Finally went to Live HTTP headers in firefox to take the POST'd data to manually create a POST w/LWP (instead of mech), and then noticed that my password was passed as 12345678 when it's really 123456789 ... Checked the html source again and there is a maxlength=8 for the password field ...

/me goes off to research now how to recognize that in WWW::Mechanize ...
Update: See RFC: Where to patch to enforce maxlength in Mech? for thoughts on possibly adding a feature/patch for it.

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Re^2: problem loggin into pm
by holli (Abbot) on Jan 08, 2008 at 13:44 UTC
    Many thanks!
    So the last 2 digits of my password are actually ignored, eh? That bugs me a little, because without them my password is an ordinary word, prone to dictionary attacks. I wonder what's the reason for this oviously arbitrary limitation.


    holli, /regexed monk/
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