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Help needed in login: msg#00001

lang.perl.modules.lwp

Subject: Help needed in login


Hi! I'm trying to log in to a Web service using LWP::UserAgent but something goes wrong in my script. The code I use is the following:

$agent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
push @{$agent->requests_redirectable}, 'POST';
$response = $agent->get($url);
die unless ($response->is_success);
@forms = HTML::Form->parse($response);
$forms[0]->value('myUsername', $login);
$forms[0]->value('myPassword', $password);
$forms[0]->value('cookie', $cookieValue);
$request = $forms[0]->click('Button1');

There are no warnings and as far as I can tell all is going fine. The site redirects me even to the proper page after posting the form but indicates that I haven't logged in to the service yet. For testing purposes I've tried giving a false password in which case the service behaves as it should, insisting retyping the password.

I used the WWW::Mechanize module to do the same login and it works fine:

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$mech->get($url);
die unless ($mech->success);

$mech->submit_form(
form_number => 1,
button => 'Button1',
fields => {myUsername => $login,
myPassword => $password,
cookie => 'off',
}
);

Unfortunately using Mechanize doesn't solve my problem since I want to use the UserAgent directly and pass it as argument for the Robot.pm. Any ideas what might be going wrong in my first implementation?

Thanks,
Matti



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