Re: perl and web

Rob Coops wrote:
> This has been asked at least as often as it has been anwsered and so 
> far the most flexible solution I have found, not the simplest though.
>  
> WWW::Mechanize 
> <http://search.cpan.org/%7Epetdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.34/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm>
>  
> There are a lot of others out there and a lot of them have been build 
> on top of this little gem. If you are looking to scrape a major 
> website like hotmal, yahoo, imdb, gmail, etc, you will most likely 
> find modules dedicated to that website that do all the dirty work for you.
>  
> Be careful though the more specific the implementation the more likely 
> it is that a small layout change on the website can break your 
> scrapping module. But I assume that you figured that one out already.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Rob Coops
>

Will perl handle login to authentication based website?
What I am trying to do is, launch perl script and interface with tomcat 
URL which requires authentication and then grep certain information from 
the page.