Connecting to Secure Site with UserName and Password prompt

cooper (cooper@llamacom.com)
Mon, 06 Sep 1999 15:18:23 -0700 

I'm trying to connect to a secure site (https) that prompts for a
username
and password.  I've been successfully using lwp to connect to non secure 
sites without password/username prompts.

I've looked through the documentation and haven't been able to come up
with something that works (even on a secure, non-password prompting site
- such as
www.nodeworks.com).  

I've installed the Crypt-SSLeay module.  

the test script i'm using is below.

If someone could send me the basic code to hit an https site using
lwp::useragent, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

Cooper


#!perl
        
use HTTP::Response;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;

	        #$url = "https://iso_si/isoCgi/msg.pl";
        $url = "www.nodeworks.com";
	        #$un = "user";
        	#$pw = "pass";
        my($ua)  = new LWP::UserAgent;
        my($app) = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
        my($req) = new HTTP::Request('POST',$URL);
        $ua->timeout($timeout);
        	#$ua->credentials("CA ISO FOLSOM","SI.AUTHORIZED",$un,$pw);
        $req->content_type($app);
        $req->content($arg);
        my($res) = $ua->request($req);

        if ($res->is_success()) {
                print $res->content();                    
        } else {  # error in response
                print "error\n";
        }