--- On Thu, 21/1/10, Ashish Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > > How can we access a password protected site using perl. Not > the ones' that > use a realm (wherein there is a popup window for username > and password) type > of authentication. By password protected I mean sites like > gmail, yahoo etc, > wherein the password needs to be supplied to the ID of > field. I have tried > using the LWP module POST method, however, GMAIL does not > accept post > method. > There is a perl programme called fetchyahoo. This gets yahoo mails to local mail folder so that mutt and other such things can access. This can throw light on how to authenticate. fetchyahoo is part of debian repository. There are similar tools for gmail,hotmail etc.
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