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500 after submit? What is $mech->dump of the 500 error?

is JS involved?

try HTTP::Recorder, Web Testing with HTTP::Recorder )

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Re^2: Seeking assistance with WWW::Mechanize Form Submission
by tspang (Initiate) on Jan 14, 2013 at 22:39 UTC
    I'll take a look at HTTP::Recorder.

    There doesn't appear to be a dump method - just dump-forms, dump-images, etc. If I set autocheck to 1 and let it exit it gives me a quite generic error:

    Server closed connection without sending any data back

    As for javascript, the only javascript on the page sets focus to the first text field. I've included it here for completeness: 
    script type="text/javascript"
function placeFocus() {
if (document.forms.length > 0) {
var field = document.forms[0];
for (i = 0; i < field.length; i++) {
if ((field.elements[i].type == "text") || (field.elements[i].type == "
+textarea")) {
document.forms[0].elements[i].focus();
break;
}
}
}
}
/script

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      It is common for an image on the page to set a cookie, so HTTP::Recorder or LiveHttpHeaders or WireShark will show that if you're looking :)
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      :) $mech->res->dump
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        I'm not sure what the correct method of responding to multiple comments is, so I'm going to reply to each on individually.

        I must be missing something in the documention as I'm not seeing res->dump in the mechanize doc on cpan. Anyway, here is what I get back from the dump: 

        500 Server closed connection without sending any data back
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:45:32 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response

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