[ale] Using Perl to Access Linksys

[Adrin]

Better late than never.

Ever thought of trying ddclient?  It is even written in perl, I think.
It all looks like perl to me.

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Armsby
> John-G16665
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:00 PM
> To: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Using Perl to Access Linksys
> 
> 
> I will be trying this...... Thanks for the tips....
> 
> use LWP::UserAgent;
> $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
> $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://myProtectedURL');
> $req->authorization_basic('myuserid', 'mypassword');
> print $ua->request($req)->as_string;
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denny Chambers [mailto:dchambers at bugfixer.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:23 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Using Perl to Access Linksys
> 
> 
> If the login is coming from the linksys web servers, as Basic 
> Authenication, then add a "Authorization" header to you GET requests. 
> The header will look like this:
> 
> Authorization: BASIC d3fF53C7hRG6edk8Ut=
> 
> The last part of this header (d3fF53C7hRG6edk8Ut=) is the 
> username/password. The username/password is Base64Encoded, in the form 
> of username:password.
> 
> HTH,
> Denny
> 
> Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
> >All,
> >
> >I thought I would ask you guys before I tried the Perl guys.....
> >
> >
> >I have a DHCP account Mindspring and a Linksys switch/router.  I want perl to 
> log into the router and mail the html of the /Status.htm page.  From there, I 
> can access my PC as I have port forwarding.  I used the Oreiley book to "get" 
> the page, but the login/password prompt defeats me.
> >
> >I have no problem "getting" any html page and putting it in a variable.  
> Unfortunately the html login prompt is not captured, it is not an html "page".
> >
> >Anyone scripting into Linksys to the the WAN IP?
> >
> >John
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