Downloading a file that requires username and password?

[jonx]

Code:

open ( CWFILE,">file.xls"

$URL = get("

http://www.somedomain.com/somefile");

print CWFILE "$URL\n\n";
close CWFILE;

When I do this though, the file is empty... So I went to my browser to check if the file exists, and it does... so thats good. I realized though that when I download the file in my browser, it is asking me for a username and password. Its easy to insert a username and password in my browser to download the file, but how do I do it using perl?

I tried adding the username and password to the query string, but that didn't work. There has to be a way to do it... Help!! =)

Thanks

-Jon

 

[jonx]

??

 

[raklet]

Take a peek at this thread:

http://forums.devshed.com/archive/6/2002/01/4/29063

You might want to look into the modules LWP::Simple and lwpcook.

LWP::Simple allows you to embed a username password into your url just as if you are typing it in the browser, but it only works for basic authentication via .htaccess.

Never used it, but it is a place to start looking.

 

[jonx]

that does work for me =( is there another way to do it? There has to be a way to send a request using LWP::useragent right?