Hi, that's weird, indeed it works for me...
Is your WWW::Mechanize properly installed?
my script is here
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use Data::Dumper;
my $url = 'http://search.cpan.org';
my $searchstring = 'mechanize';
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get( $url );
if( not $mech->success() ) {
print "Could not retrieve page:\n";
print $mech->content();
die;
}
print "all forms:\n", Dumper( [ $mech->forms ] );
$mech->submit_form(
form_number => 1,
fields => {
query => $searchstring,
}
);
print "content:\n", $mech->content();
and the output is here
perl test.pl
all forms:
$VAR1 = [
bless( {
'enctype' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'action' => bless( do{\(my $o = 'http://search.cpan
+.org/search')}, 'URI::http' ),
'method' => 'GET',
'attr' => {
'name' => 'f',
'class' => 'searchbox',
'method' => 'get'
},
'inputs' => [
bless( {
'value_name' => 'in',
'value' => '',
'name' => 'query',
'type' => 'text',
'size' => '35'
}, 'HTML::Form::TextInput' ),
bless( {
'current' => 0,
'menu' => [
{
'seen' => 1,
'value' => 'al
+l',
'name' => 'All
+'
},
{
'value' => 'mo
+dule',
'name' => 'Mod
+ules'
},
{
'value' => 'di
+st',
'name' => 'Dis
+tributions'
},
{
'value' => 'au
+thor',
'name' => 'Aut
+hors'
}
],
'name' => 'mode',
'type' => 'option'
}, 'HTML::Form::ListInput' ),
bless( {
'value_name' => '',
'value' => 'CPAN Search',
'type' => 'submit'
}, 'HTML::Form::SubmitInput' )
]
}, 'HTML::Form' )
];
content:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859
+-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/s/style.css" type="text/css">
<title>search.cpan.org: The CPAN Search Site</title>
</head>
<body id="cpansearch">
<center><div class="logo"><a href="/"><img src="/s/img/cpan_banner.png
+" alt="CPAN"></a></div></center>
<div class="menubar">
<a href="/">Home</a>
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</div>
<form method="get" action="/search" name="f" class="searchbox">
<input type="text" name="query" value="mechanize" size="35">
<br>in <select name="mode">
<option value="all">All</option>
<option value="module" >Modules</option>
<option value="dist" >Distributions</option>
<option value="author" >Authors</option>
</select> <input type="submit" value="CPAN Search">
</form>
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<p><a href="/author/ABELTJE/Win32-IE-Mechanize-0.008/lib/Win32/IE/Me
+chanize.pm"><b>Win32::IE::Mechanize</b></a>
<br /><small>Like "the mech" but with IE as user-agent</smal
+l>
<br /><small> <a href="/~abeltje/Win32-IE-Mechanize-0.008/">Win32-IE
+-Mechanize-0.008</a> -
<span class=date>09 Jan 2005</span> -
<a href="/~abeltje/">Abe Timmerman</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/CORION/WWW-Mechanize-Shell-0.36/lib/WWW/Mechaniz
+e/Shell.pm"><b>WWW::Mechanize::Shell</b></a>
<br /><small>An interactive shell for WWW::Mechanize</small>
<br /><small> <a href="/~corion/WWW-Mechanize-Shell-0.36/">WWW-Mecha
+nize-Shell-0.36</a> -
<span class=date>04 Dec 2004</span> -
<a href="/~corion/">Max Maischein</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/ESUMMERS/WWW-Mechanize-Sleepy-0.5/Sleepy.pm"><b>
+WWW::Mechanize::Sleepy</b></a>
<br /><small>A Sleepy Mechanize Agent</small>
<br /><small> <a href="/~esummers/WWW-Mechanize-Sleepy-0.5/">WWW-Mec
+hanize-Sleepy-0.5</a> -
<span class=date>30 Aug 2003</span> -
<a href="/~esummers/">Ed Summers</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/LBROCARD/WWW-Mechanize-Timed-0.42/lib/WWW/Mechan
+ize/Timed.pm"><b>WWW::Mechanize::Timed</b></a>
<br /><small>Time Mechanize requests</small>
<br /><small> <a href="/~lbrocard/WWW-Mechanize-Timed-0.42/">WWW-Mec
+hanize-Timed-0.42</a> -
<span class=date>23 Jan 2004</span> -
<a href="/~lbrocard/">Leon Brocard</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/CORION/Bundle-WWW-Mechanize-Shell-0.29/lib/Bundl
+e/WWW/Mechanize/Shell.pm"><b>Bundle::WWW::Mechanize::Shell</b></a>
<br /><small>install all optional modules for WWW::Mechanize::Shell</s
+mall>
<br /><small> <a href="/~corion/Bundle-WWW-Mechanize-Shell-0.29/">Bu
+ndle-WWW-Mechanize-Shell-0.29</a> -
<span class=date>03 Aug 2003</span> -
<a href="/~corion/">Max Maischein</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/PETDANCE/WWW-Mechanize-Cached-1.32/Cached.pm"><b
+>WWW::Mechanize::Cached</b></a>
<br /><small>Cache response to be polite</small>
<br /><small> <a href="/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-Cached-1.32/">WWW-Me
+chanize-Cached-1.32</a> -
<span class=date>11 Apr 2004</span> -
<a href="/~petdance/">Andy Lester</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/CORION/WWW-Mechanize-FormFiller-0.05/lib/WWW/Mec
+hanize/FormFiller.pm"><b>WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller</b></a>
<br /><small>framework to automate HTML forms</small>
<br /><small> <a href="/~corion/WWW-Mechanize-FormFiller-0.05/">WWW-
+Mechanize-FormFiller-0.05</a> -
<span class=date>09 Jun 2003</span> -
<a href="/~corion/">Max Maischein</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/LBROCARD/Test-WWW-Mechanize-Catalyst-0.29/lib/Te
+st/WWW/Mechanize/Catalyst.pm"><b>Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst</b></
+a>
<br /><small> <a href="/~lbrocard/Test-WWW-Mechanize-Catalyst-0.29/"
+>Test-WWW-Mechanize-Catalyst-0.29</a> -
<span class=date>17 Mar 2005</span> -
<a href="/~lbrocard/">Leon Brocard</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/SPOON/WWW-Yahoo-Groups-1.91/lib/WWW/Yahoo/Groups
+/Mechanize.pm"><b>WWW::Yahoo::Groups::Mechanize</b></a>
<br /><small>Control WWW::Mechanize for WYG.</small>
<br /><small> <a href="/~spoon/WWW-Yahoo-Groups-1.91/">WWW-Yahoo-Gro
+ups-1.91</a> -
<span class=date>01 Dec 2003</span> -
<a href="/~spoon/">Iain Truskett (see Andy Lester)</a>
</small>
<p><a href="/author/CPANPERL/WWW-Mechanize-Frames-0.03/lib/WWW/Mecha
+nize/Frames.pm"><b>WWW::Mechanize::Frames</b></a>
<br /><small> <a href="/~cpanperl/WWW-Mechanize-Frames-0.03/">WWW-Me
+chanize-Frames-0.03</a> -
<span class=date>17 Mar 2005</span> -
<a href="/~cpanperl/">Nick Stoianov</a>
</small>
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