Okay folks, I have a tough one on my hands here. I have been using LWP::UserAgent for a longtime now. But I need to grab some data from a fairly sophisticated website. Probably is running JAVA on the server-side since it rights a JSESSIONID cookie. It actually writes several cookies, all of which controll authentication and access inside the site. Its also SSL, but thats not an issue since I have SSLeay installed.
The cookies are key to being able to get inside the site. I have never done this with LWP, started playing around with cookie jar - but have not had any luck. Since most sites are going in this direction of cookie-authentication, hopefully some other folks out there have tackled this. I just need help with the Perl framework that can store and push back that cookie data during the lifetime of the session - which in my case is the duration of the perl executable. I have to make about 4 HTTP requests, one is initial hit to site to load some cookies, 1 is to login and get a few more cookies!, then 2 more to grab data. I already have all the GET and POST requests mapped out. Any ideas? Thanks -irwin
