>>> mind having a copy to investigate. --[[Joey]]
>>>> Didn't think of that, will keep a copy if there's a next time. -- [[schmonz]]
+
+-----
+
+In a corporate environment where feeds are generally behind
+authentication, I need to prime the aggregator's `LWP::UserAgent`
+with some cookies. What I've done is write a custom plugin to populate
+`$config{cookies}` with an `HTTP::Cookies` object, plus this diff:
+
+ --- /var/tmp/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/IkiWiki/Plugin/aggregate.pm 2010-06-24 13:03:33.000000000 -0400
+ +++ aggregate.pm 2010-06-24 13:04:09.000000000 -0400
+ @@ -488,7 +488,11 @@
+ }
+ $feed->{feedurl}=pop @urls;
+ }
+ - my $res=URI::Fetch->fetch($feed->{feedurl});
+ + my $res=URI::Fetch->fetch($feed->{feedurl},
+ + UserAgent => LWP::UserAgent->new(
+ + cookie_jar => $config{cookies},
+ + ),
+ + );
+ if (! $res) {
+ $feed->{message}=URI::Fetch->errstr;
+ $feed->{error}=1;
+
+It works, but I have to remember to apply the diff whenever I update
+ikiwiki. Can you provide a more elegant means of allowing cookies and/or
+the user agent to be programmatically manipulated? --[[schmonz]]
+
+> Ping -- is the above patch perhaps acceptable (or near-acceptable)? -- [[schmonz]]
+
+>> Pong.. I'd be happier with a more 100% solution that let cookies be used
+>> w/o needing to write a custom plugin to do it. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> According to LWP::UserAgent, for the common case, a complete
+>>> and valid configuration for `$config{cookies}` would be `{ file =>
+>>> "$ENV{HOME}/.cookies.txt" }`. In the more common case of not needing
+>>> to prime one's cookies, `cookie_jar` can be `undef` (that's the
+>>> default). In my less common case, the cookies are generated by
+>>> visiting a couple magic URLs, which would be trivial to turn into
+>>> config options, except that these particular URLs rely on SPNEGO
+>>> and so LWP::Authen::Negotiate has to be loaded. So I think adding
+>>> `$config{cookies}` (and using it in the aggregate plugin) should
+>>> be safe, might help people in typical cases, and won't prevent
+>>> further enhancements for less typical cases. --[[schmonz]]
+
+>>>> Ok, done. Called it cookiejar. --[[Joey]]