RE: LWP with SSL and Client Side Cookies...

I've tried using cookie_jar but I cant seem to get it to work. Here is a
snippet of code that I am using. Its a little dirty, but it hits the
entrance page of the site, grabs the cookies. Where I am stuck is, on my
2nd http request, I need to take those cookies and insert them into the
header of the second request.


        use LWP::UserAgent;

        $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(keep_alive => 1);
        $ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0')

        # Initial non-ssl request to homepage to grab cookies:
        #
        # JSESSIONID, serverName, and BIGipServerPROD-EXCHANGE-80

        my $response_a = $ua->get("http://www.intervalworld.com");

        # $response_a->header("set-cookie") now contains my three cookies
        # which I can grab with regular expressions.

        # Now I need to POST for login and insert those three cookies
        # in the request header.

        my %formdata = (
                login   => "abc123",
                passwd  => "xyz456",
        );

        # my $response_b = $ua->post("https://secure.intervalworld.com/web/cs", \%formdata )

        # Here is where I am stuck, I dont know how to insert
	# those previosly stored cookies. I've tried cookie_jar
	# but it doesn't seem to work.

-irwin

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 [email protected] wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Here's a bit of my custom spider class's new($)...
>
> 	$self = LWP::RobotUA->new(
> 		agent => $_user_agent,
> 		from => $_from,
> 		requests_redirectable =>
> 		[	'GET',
> 			'HEAD',
> 			'POST', # default is just GET and HEAD
> 		],
> 	);
>
> 	# use cookies
> 	$self->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
>
> I don't need to save cookies from session to session... but if you do, there's a way to load a cookie jar from a file.
>
> --
> Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com               805.964.4554 x902
> Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com       Software Engineer
>
>