cookie presentation

[simanek]

Hello all,

I want to fake out a webserver into thinking that a person has actually logged in and has gotten a cookie for the session. I have a valid password and username and I know what the name of the cookie needs to be. What I'm planning on doing is using a perl script to submit an http 'POST' to the page where the form submits to and get the session cookie from it. I can do this just fine. What I don't know how to do is present the webserver with my session cookie when I access a different page. Is it something in the http GET command that I need to write that presents it with my cookie or what? I'm at a loss. Actually, does this question even make sense to anyone? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Btw, system specs are as follows:
Server: solaris7, apache 1.3.20, perl cgi scripts
client: win2k, ie5.5

Any help, suggestions, or url's would be greatly appreciated.
Mike
~~~~
simanek@uiuc.edu
"It's a Swingline!"
~~~~

 

[goBoating]

on it's face - this sounds like something you don't need to be doing. Can you provide some reason for wanting to 'break into' a site?


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[simanek]

I've cross posted in the perl forum as well. See the explanation there. In short, I'm not trying to break in...i'm trying to automate. Mike
~~~~
simanek@uiuc.edu
"It's a Swingline!"
~~~~