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Dear Monks,...

Please I ask for you patience and wisdom...

I have this script;
require LWP::UserAgent; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->timeout(10); $ua->env_proxy; my $response = $ua->get('http://toolsview/bcp_tool/'); if ($response->is_success) { print $response->content; # or whatever } else { die $response->status_line; }
the output I get is;
<html> <head> <title>BCP Administrator Console</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 +"> </head> <frameset rows="90,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0" col +s="*"> <frame name="top" scrolling="NO" noresize src="top.asp" frameborder= +"NO" > <frame name="main" src="logon.asp"> </frameset> <noframes> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> </body> </noframes> </html>
Which is a web page that requests users to login (i.e. to insert a user ID and a password then click on the 'Login' button).

My question is, can I automate the login process using Perl and how would I be able to do this? - This is only a prelude to more complicated things to come with LWP - and I will continue to read LWP documentation. However the answer to my enquiry will be a good spring board to launch me into Web programming.

Thanks

In reply to My first LWP script by Anonymous Monk

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