"Aman Thind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> On receiving no reply to my previous post, I myself struggled a bit and
came
> up with the following code to login to the site :
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> use LWP::UserAgent;
> use HTTP::Cookies;
>
> $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
> $ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "lwpcookies.txt",autosave =>
1));
>
> my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://www.sms.ac/login.asp');
> $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
> $req->content('loginuserid=myuserid&loginpassword=mypassword');
> my $res = $ua->request($req);
> print $res->as_string;
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> However, on running this script, a web page with the following message is
> returned :
>
> Unable to establish login (cookies rejected).
>
> Could someone please guide me how to overcome this.
>

You are running in to some very usual issues with http clients. Really the
best we ( or at least myself ) can say is that you are not sending a
properly formatted cookie.

There is a module called WWW::Mechanize that helps facilitate what you are
trying to do. You might want to give it a look.

Todd W.



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