Re: lwp::simple basic question about webbing

[merlyn]

That page needs authorization. LWP::Simple isn't that smart. You'll need to read about how to provide authorization using LWP::UserAgent.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[LeGo]

This might not be directly to you merlyn but maybe a general question. I have a real hard time reading perl directions :). I did notice that my cookies file had been added to by the website I am trying to use. So I would like to somehow show this up to the server I am going into. I noticed this as possibly what I need to use but don't understand how. This is a part of LWP::UserAgent

$ua->cookie_jar([$cookies])

Get/set the HTTP::Cookies object to use. The default is to have no cookie_jar, i.e. never automatically add "Cookie" headers to the requests.

I have four lines of stuff from this website. Would I put them into an array, would I put the cookies in $cookies and have many of the above lines of code, or how might I go about showing them my cookies that the have set?

LeGo

[dkubb]

If you are using Netscape, you can use HTTP::Cookies to have your LWP::UserAgent client read and write from your actual Netscape cookie files without needing to cut and paste the cookie string into your code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use LWP::UserAgent;

#Set path to your Netscape Cookie files
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies::Netscape->new(
  File     => "$ENV{HOME}/.netscape/cookies",
  AutoSave => 1,
);

#Create a User Agent, and tell it to store cookies
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->cookie_jar($cookie_jar);
#...

If you aren't using Netscape, then you will have to explicitly set the cookies in the $cookie_jar object, which you can do using the HTTP::Cookies::set_cookie() method.