ssl login to ebay

[Peter Dietrich]

Hello everyone,

I would like to write a Perl script, that does a login to ebay. I have
searched the internet and newsgroup archives, but all I have found are bits
of information pertaining to the login-process without ssl or methods that
insert username and password directly into a url.
I have already written a few lines but am no at a point, where I don't know
what to do next.
The problem is that I have no information about the detailed authentication
process. I know it involves cookies. But neither do I know whether to send
cookies ebay left in the jar nor do I know how, where and when to send them.
This is as far as I have come (actually not that far):

#!usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::Form;
use HTTP::Cookies;
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent=>"Mozilla/8.0");
$browser->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "cookies.txt"));
my $site =
$browser->get("http://my.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&ssPageName=h:h:mebay:DE");
# openssl and crypt::ssleay are installed
open FH, ">ebay.htm";
my @form = HTML::Form->parse($site);
my $input=$form[1]->inputs;
my $id = $form[1]->find_input("userid");
my $password = $form[1]->find_input("pass","password");
my $button = $form[1]->find_input("signinButton","submit");
$id->value("username");
$password->value("password");
my $request=$button->click($form[1]);
#print ("As_String: ",$request->as_string,"\n");
print FH $browser->post($request->uri)->as_string; # get or post?
close FH;

Does this even point to the right direction?
It would be very nice if someone could give me advice on how this can be
done.

Thanks in advance,

Peter Dietrich

Note: I have also posted this on comp.lang.perl.moderated, but the message
has not appeared there for two days now.

 

[Tad McClellan]

Note: I have also posted this on comp.lang.perl.moderated, but the message
has not appeared there for two days now.

Did you receive the registration email? You should have
gotten one that looks like this:

http://www.plover.com/clpm/how-to-register

Did you follow the instructions for registering?

Did you get an email rejecting your post?

 

[Peter Dietrich]

Did you receive the registration email? You should have
gotten one that looks like this:

http://www.plover.com/clpm/how-to-register

Did you follow the instructions for registering?

Did you get an email rejecting your post?

I didn't know that one has to register in order to able to post messages.
The email address I specified is not one that I check very often, so I had
no chance of getting to know that email.

Sincerely

 

[Chris Mattern]

I didn't know that one has to register in order to able to post messages.
The email address I specified is not one that I check very often, so I had
no chance of getting to know that email.

You need to practice the three major rules of Usenet etiquette:

1) Read the group FAQ before posting.
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This applies to *any* newgroup.