Managing cookies in Perl

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I'm working on a Perl script that has to retrieve a file from a server. The server requires authentication that is handled internally by a different server. What I need to do to retrieve the file, is to first, POST to an authenticating server, which will return two cookies. I then need to send these cookies via a GET to the target server that has the file I need. I'm looking about the net and even here for examples, but I'm still unclear on how to go about this. Can someone show me an example of how to do this?

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 21:04

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To make an LWP::UserAgent object that implements cookies is as simple as this:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->cookie_jar({});

See this article for more examples.

answered Jun 28 '11 at 21:04

Eugene Yarmash

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 28 '11 at 21:06

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You can certainly use Net::HTTP and look at the returned headers to pull the cookies out, then feed them back when you use write_request(), but this is hardly convenient.

answered Jun 28 '11 at 21:06

Seth Robertson

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Managing cookies in Perl

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