Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

I am trying to do a $mech->select but it is giving me an error like "Input "search_form:country_id" not found". Actually the "search_form:country_id" is present in the source code. I can not find where the Issue really is. The $mech->submit is also not submitting! Can anyone pls suggest me where i am getting wrong. The code is provided below.

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $url = "https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/faces/job_search?null";
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
print "$url\n";

eval{
    $mech->agent_alias('Mac Safari');
    $mech->get($url);
    $mech->form_name('myForm');
    $mech->select('search_form:category_ext_id','0');
    $mech->field('search_form:continent_id','1');
    my @values = ("25","49");
    $mech->select('search_form:country_id',\@values);
    $mech->submit();
    };

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Thank you all.

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Re: Problem with www::mechanize Select. (gzip)
by tye (Sage) on Nov 25, 2012 at 20:01 UTC

    Looks to me like the problem is that the web site is sending compressed results even when the request says that compressed results are not accepted. A quick search of WWW::Mechanize documentation turned up "We add a Referer header, as well as header to note that we can accept gzip encoded content, if Compress::Zlib is installed."

    So it looks like you can fix your problem by installing the Compress::Zlib module.

    - tye        

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Re: Problem with www::mechanize Select.
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 25, 2012 at 16:32 UTC
    Basically WWW::Mechanize isn't WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, one supports javascript, while the other one doesn't, the FAQ details the rest
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      Is there any javascript working on that page? Can you pls suggest any other way which we can get this happen with www:mechanize only ?(by $mech->post or something?)

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