I've spent the last several days looking for a solution to this issue and while I've tried several suggested solutions (in reading) all have failed. Ultimately what I want to do is just log into this site, from there I can take care of the rest. I know that the username is being passed successfully over, it's just the password is not being passed (I believe).

Courtesy of Data::Dumper here is the form and associated fields from the page:

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'default_charset' => 'UTF-8',
                 'enctype' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
                 'accept_charset' => 'UNKNOWN',
                 'action' => bless( do{\(my $o = 'http://*_edit_*/proc
+login')}, 'URI::http' ),
                 'method' => 'POST',
                 'attr' => {
                             'method' => 'POST',
                             'id' => 'fLogin'
                           },
                 'inputs' => [
                               bless( {
                                        'value_name' => '',
                                        'value' => '',
                                        'name' => 'txtUserID',
                                        'class' => 'TextInput',
                                        'id' => 'txtUserID',
                                        'type' => 'text',
                                        'size' => '20'
                                      }, 'HTML::Form::TextInput' ),
                               bless( {
                                        'readonly' => 1,
                                        'value_name' => '',
                                        'value' => '',
                                        'name' => 'sessionTermNum',
                                        'id' => 'sessionTermNum',
                                        'type' => 'hidden',
                                        'size' => '20'
                                      }, 'HTML::Form::TextInput' ),
                               bless( {
                                        'value_name' => '',
                                        'value' => '',
                                        'onkeypress' => 'return vfnChe
+ckKeyLogin(event);',
                                        'name' => 'txtPassword',
                                        'class' => 'TextInput',
                                        'id' => 'txtPassword',
                                        'type' => 'password',
                                        'size' => '20'
                                      }, 'HTML::Form::TextInput' ),
                               bless( {
                                        'readonly' => 1,
                                        'value_name' => '',
                                        'value' => 'login',
                                        'name' => 'cmd',
                                        'id' => 'cmd',
                                        'type' => 'hidden',
                                        'size' => '20'
                                      }, 'HTML::Form::TextInput' )
                             ]
               }, 'HTML::Form' );
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Here is my simple code that I believe should be working and I'm unable to figure out why:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use Data::Dumper;
use LWP;

my ($user,$pass) = ("$ARGV[0]","$ARGV[1]");
$user = chomp($user);$pass = chomp($pass);

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech -> cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
$mech -> get('http://*_edit_*/Login.jsp');
$mech -> submit_form(
            form_id   => 'fLogin',
            fields    => 
            {
                txtUserID   => $user, 
                txtPassword => $pass,
            }
);

my $html_raw = $mech -> content();
print "\n$html_raw\n";
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Thanks for reading and please excuse my Perlish n3wb c0de.
./Mogul


SOLUTION:

After watching the POST in Chrome's Developer Toolkit>Network Tab, I was able to see that the password was encrypted. I was able to take the string of encrypted text from the POST and hard-code it into my script to validate that I could log in.

Mogul