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I had forgotten about the magic cookie.

I've modified your script slightly RhetTbull. I hope that you don't mind. ;)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;

# URL to get the cookie
my $x10_url = 
'http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=30&PAGE=http://www.x10.com/x10
+ads1.htm';

# Start IE
my $ie = Win32::OLE->new('InternetExplorer.Application') 
    or die "Error getting IE instance: " . Win32::OLE->LastError();

# Show me IE, otherwise I won't know if it worked
$ie->{Visible} = 1;

# Navigate to the URL
$ie->Navigate($x10_url);

# sleep until the page is loaded
do {
    sleep(1);
} until ($ie->{ReadyState} == 4);
$ie->quit;
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Anyone care to do it with LWP?

Thanks Mr. Muskrat -- I certainly don't mind! I was playing with this after I posted and wondered why sometimes it got the cookie and sometimes it didn't. I didn't realize that Navigate() might return before the page was loaded.