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[nonethefewer]

Perl question ahead.  ISO assistance regarding remaining logged in while I do things.

[eta] Why do I even bother?  I found a workaround.

What I am attempting to do:

* Log into Authorize.net (https).
* Click a link to go to the Reports section.
* On the Reports page, grab the default report date value, for later transforming into an acceptable date format.
* Click the button to show the report.
  * On the report page, if View All is a link on the page, click it.
* For each transaction:
  * Open the link.
  * Export the details I want to a text file.
  * Go back one page.

The issue:

- I can log into the site.
- I can get to the Reports page.
- I can click on the button.
# The page that results tells me that the page has timed out:

"For security reasons, the page you are submitting has timed out and is no longer valid. Please click your browser's 'Back' button, then click 'Refresh' to try again."

What on earth am I missing?

Or maybe Authnet doesn't like people programmatically logging in?

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[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

tangential to the subject at hand, but check out http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/ if you haven't