At 22:24 -0500 01.28.2001, Paul N. Schatz wrote:
>       Is it possible to write a script, for example using
>LWP::Simple, that would extract information from a secure web site in
>a secure manner completely automatically. Ideally, upon execution,
>the script would access the web page supplying user name and
>password, extract the desired information and download it without any
>likely compromise of the information or the password used.

LWP::Simple on Mac OS cannot use SSL until someone ports Net::SSL,
basically.  Until then, if you have the latest Mac OS (9.1, I believe, is
required) you can use URL Access (perhaps via Mac::Glue) to access https
sites, or you can try scripting the browser (again, perhaps via Mac::Glue).

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