FW: Problem using HTML::Form with LWP & SSL

Found my problem .... the actual page being returned after logging in, that
used to have the form that I parsed, is a new page that has a JavaScript
function that fires when loaded, that reloads the browser to the actual page
I want. I guess I'll catch that page that has the JavaScript function, parse
out the url being reloaded to "by hand", reinvoke LWP using that url to give
me the page I really want and continue on. That would be the theory anyway
;-)


-----Original Message-----
From: sborruso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sborruso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:48 PM
To: libwww@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Problem using HTML::Form with LWP & SSL


Greetings,

Having a problem parsing a returned form now that SSL has been enabled at
the target.

My application would connect to eBay specifying the page to "change an
auction item description".
I would then catch the returned login page, fill in the userid/password and
would then be directed
to the page to start change item description process (Enter Item Number
page form).

Since eBay has enabled SSL for signing in (couple days ago) my app breaks
when trying to parse for the
input area on the Add Description form using HTML::Form.

I changed the first form parse to specify an https url base and do receive
the login page fine and am able to parse/update/submit
the userid/password using HTML::Form. The Add Description page comes back
ok but the last HTML::Form parse below fails
when I issue that against the returned html. I dumped some headers on this
received page that indicate SSL is in effect but
if I save the page and bring it up in a browser the properties of the page
indicate it's straight http.

Not sure how to further debug the HTML::Form that's failing below.

Here's the SSL header info -

head1 - AES256-SHA
head2 - /C=US/ST=California/L=San Jose/O=eBay Inc./OU=Site
Operations/CN=signin.ebay.com
head3 - /C=US/O=RSA Data Security, Inc./OU=Secure Server Certification
Authority
status is 200 OK

I learned that I needed to have the correct Perl mods for LWP to handle SSL
installed on my server and made sure
they were there. Crypt::SSLeay and Net::SSLeay were already present and I
had IO::Socket::SSL
added. This is all running on RHEL 3.

Any assistance/guidance/pointers are most appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve