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Hi Bakunin ,

I cant use wget because , am not sure if it can be installed as an stand alone utility.

And mechanize is an module of perl-lwp , which has many more options which can be used by me for later part of the problem.

Please guide me in helping LWP installed w/o admin privillege.

wget is a stand-alone utility, and has always been a stand-alone utility, designed for this exact sort of thing.

Step 1: Get admin privilege.

If you can't, why not?

Hi Corona688,

Am not sure whats the limitation i found with wget, but there is some limitation thats why i didn't kept as a option.
Fyi, weburl which am trying to access wil need username/password to login and its an HTTPS link.

Regards Admin privilege , am working for an professional organization and i have only user access , root access is out of the question, And we cant request to install as well.

With the resources which we have , i have to figure out a solution.

so the obvious choice for me to work now is Perl only- with lwp and mechanize. Hence am asking for some help in this.

Then you are out of luck. I hope you have access to a compiler, as you may resort to building things inside home directories and creating far bigger messes than if they'd just allowed you to do your jobs in the first place.

Hi Corona688,

Thanks for your reply. Perhaps, am out of luck.

After lot of searches , i found a solution for those problems, am in progress of implementing it. Am sharing the same link over here, Am sure , that it will be beneficiary for many people.

HowToInstallCpanModules < TWiki < TWiki

Installing mod_perl without superuser privileges - Perl.com

Unix.com is an great forum for solutions pertaining real world problems.

You CAN pass userinfo and password using wget and/or curl.
Both are standalone utilites, specialy compared to any python or perl solution.

From their user: icyrock

Code:

# Log in to the server.  This can be done only once.
  wget --save-cookies cookies.txt \
     --post-data 'user=foo&password=bar' \
     http://server.com/auth.php
# Now grab the page or pages we care about.
  wget --load-cookies cookies.txt \
     -p http://server.com/interesting/article.php

This way you dont (should not) have to install anything.