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Authenticating to a web form that posts to a jsp.
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| Jeremy 2004-06-30, 3:58 pm |
| Hi,
I am trying to write a perl script that will automatically
authenticate to a web site so that I can download files from the site.
However, the site posts username/password information to a jsp, not a
cgi. I have read the LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Simple documentation,
and had no problem writing a script to authenticate to another site,
but I haven't had any success here. Any suggestions? If you're
interested, the authentication page page in question is:
https://www.affymetrix.com/site/login/login.affx
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeremy
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| Sherm Pendley 2004-06-30, 8:59 pm |
| Jeremy wrote:
> However, the site posts username/password information to a jsp, not a
> cgi.
That doesn't matter - a form is a form is a form. The client just formats
and sends the form data according to HTTP rules; it doesn't know or care
how the server deals with its end.
> I have read the LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Simple documentation,
> and had no problem writing a script to authenticate to another site,
> but I haven't had any success here. Any suggestions?
The site you point to isn't using HTTP Authentication. There is a form in
the page you point to; you need to mimic what that form does by assigning
the user name and password to form inputs and submitting a get or post
request to the action URL.
If the site maintains state using cookies, you'll need to handle that as
well.
sherm--
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