Re: LWP and cookies

Gisle Aas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.lwp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The Saltydog <[email protected]> writes:

>  I am writing an application with LWP::UserAgent. From the web I can
> authenticate on a form and then post some data on a second form.
> >From perl, the authentication is working fine, but as soon as I get
> next form url, I receive from the server a "session timeout" message.
> In my program I am using memory-cookies:
> 
>   my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();     # Create user agent object
>     $ua->cookie_jar({});                # Cookie handling object
>     $ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0');          # User agent property

Which should work fine.  I suggest you try a network sniffer program
(like ethereal) to figure out what is different when the brower talks
to the server than when LWP does.

Regards,
Gisle
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