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Chazg76
Chazg76

Reputation: 649

How to specify cookies stored in file with perl module LWP::UserAgent

I have the following piece of code that uses cookies collected from another perl program to log into a sharepoint website using the perl module LWP::UserAgent.

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use HTTP::CookieJar::LWP ();
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $resultXML='C:\Docs\Result.txt';
my $url="https://[mydomain].sharepoint.com/_api/contextinfo";
        
my $cookie_jar_obj = HTTP::Cookies->new();
$cookie_jar_obj->load( $resultXML );
my $lwp = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$lwp->cookie_jar( $cookie_jar_obj ); 
        
print $lwp->cookie_jar->as_string() . "\n";

my $response = $lwp->request(POST $url);
print $response->content . "\n";

Where the file stored in the variable $resultXML contains the following cookie information:

#LWP-Cookies-1.0
Set-Cookie3:rtFa=UROIhi84Sxr8o0DZHximQjlCOUI2QzItMzRDMC00N0Q1LTgyQ0EtMzI1MzhCRjNERTZDjQiIQbx0/QTRCNtpvjQTaZEcjpYFSkKHsPK+d1Nlnx6MuaDI/Xs21W7orysOeYPRRoDCCX/3ZtL61T3SHYfMkPeqXTJ4rloliGHsN7tuQXeI6OYAXXs8ysayP4VzpJyQEm+S0zvjkVLLtanQ5RDfQ1bnYq9ayu7L5HDJDNaKQhmhXmTdodwTlvwJRRyWgLL/GCuWWyAXEppy9Ta7PzpO76sb9c91ssScjDJY/Fw7TIPipleMgjjnHud1Os/NAihtTxTMWxS5XpiZbCh6DtvPwYyZXE54nsyhIekRvrixFQ0PeZinWpAkUAAAA=; domain=sharepoint.com; path=/; SameSite=None; secure; HttpOnly;FedAuth=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; path=/; SameSite=None; secure; HttpOnly;

If I copy and paste this information starting from the "rtFA=" part into the "Advanced REST client" chrome extension I get a successful reponse.

However when printing the entry

$lwp->cookie_jar->as_string()

In the result there are extra double quote characters. i.e.

Set-Cookie3:rtFa="UROIhi84Sxr8o0DZHximQjlCOUI2QzItMzRDMC00N0Q1LTgyQ0EtMzI1MzhCRjNERTZDjQiIQbx0/QTRCNtpvjQTaZEcjpYFSkKHsPK+d1Nlnx6MuaDI/Xs21W7orysOeYPRRoDCCX/3ZtL61T3SHYfMkPeqXTJ4rloliGHsN7tuQXeI6OYAXXs8ysayP4VzpJyQEm+S0zvjkVLLtanQ5RDfQ1bnYq9ayu7L5HDJDNaKQhmhXmTdodwTlvwJRRyWgLL/GCuWWyAXEppy9Ta7PzpO76sb9c91ssScjDJY/Fw7TIPipleMgjjnHud1Os/NAihtTxTMWxS5XpiZbCh6DtvPwYyZXE54nsyhIekRvrixFQ0PeZinWpAkUAAAA="; domain=sharepoint.com; path=/; SameSite=None; secure; HttpOnly;FedAuth="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"; path=/; SameSite=None; secure; HttpOnly;

If I copy and paste THIS information, again, starting from the "rtFA=" part into the "Advanced REST client" chrome extension I get an error 403 Forbidden error which is exactly what I get when I run the rest of my code after the

print $lwp->cookie_jar->as_string() . "\n";

statement.

How can I stop perl inserting these extra double quote (") marks which seem to be stopping my perl script from connecting to the website?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 325

Answers (1)

brian d foy
brian d foy

Reputation: 132896

Don't use the result of as_string to get a cookie value. That's not meant for the wire, usually. Look at the add_cookie_header subroutine from HTTP::Cookies and notice that they don't use as_string to figure out anything. That does quote everything except the value though.

I think the first thing you need to consider is what you are giving to HTTP::Cookies. Maybe the XML in the variable name is just a bad name, but the data aren't XML. If you've messed up the data in Result.txt, your problem happens very early:

my $resultXML='C:\Docs\Result.txt';
my $url="https://[mydomain].sharepoint.com/_api/contextinfo";
        
my $cookie_jar_obj = HTTP::Cookies->new();
$cookie_jar_obj->load( $resultXML );

Upvotes: 1

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