$cookie_jar question

manually set cookies in LWP::UserAgent

[affter333]

I need to manually set 2 cookies
(user=apple) (pass=123) for .yahoo.com

I'm kind of new, so I looked up the cookbook
but don't understand the values
What are $version? $key? $val? $discard?

can someone give an example?
Thanks for your kind help...:)

$cookie_jar->set_cookie($version, $key, $val, $path, $domain, $port, $path_spec, $secure, $maxage, $discard, \%rest)

[jollymcfats]

Most of the options come right from the Netscape cookie spec, which explains how the browser will react to them. The spec is linked in the perldoc for HTTP::Cookies. The HTTP::Cookies "key" is "NAME" in the spec.

$version isn't well documented. You probably just want to use

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. If $discard is true, the cookie will be deleted instead of set.

If you're working on a scraper sort of thing, you should set the values in set_cookie() the same way that the site does when it issues the cookie. You can snoop on the Set-Cookie headers either with LWP and some coding, or you could do something like log in with FireFox and view the reponse headers with the WebDev extension.