From: Christian Luginbuehl <dinkel@...>
Date: 2007-05-22T23:09:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Wikipedia Bot

> That's the thing, I've tried that but I can't find 'sign in' 'sign out' 
> or the my username, which usually appears in the top right. Also, I've 
> tried looking at the pade via IE after I've run the code, and that says 
> I'm not signed in as well.
> 
> Any ideas?

Check if there is a cookie involved that stores your session. As far as
I understand the HTTP protocol, it is possible that WP is sending you a
redirect together with your session cookie, which it expects to be sent
back when (automatically) trying to GET the MainPage.

It is just an idea, I never looked at the login process of WP and
neither fully understand how much of the cookie handling is done for you
with the Net::HTTP module.

Dinkel