At 11:18 PM 2/24/02 -0800, David Gerler wrote:
>I can't figure out the terminology for what I want to do. I have searched my
>resources for what I think it is with no luck.
>
>Here's what I want.
>
>I want the script to login to a web site. The website will redirect to
>another site with a session id in the url. I need to parse the session id
>out of the url so I can use it in future communications. I have tried
>searching for "parse Url" and a manual search for terms that I think might
>apply. Any help or leads anyone can provide will be appreciated.
Well, you got the terminology right, so I'll press on to implementation.
Use the query_form method from the URI module to get the value you want:
use URI;
$u = URI->new("http://foo.com/bar.cgi?baz=blech&bibble=bubble";);
%query = $u->query_form;
print $query{bibble}'
prints "bubble"
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