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

Hi experts,

I am trying to log into the website: https://steamcommunity.com/login/home/?goto=market%2F and it doesn't seem to be working. My code is: 


    use JSON::XS;
    use WWW::Mechanize;
    use HTTP::Cookies;
    use LWP::Simple;
    use strict;
    use warnings;


    my $login = "https://steamcommunity.com/login/home/?goto=market%2F
+";
    my $username = "USR";
    my $password = "PASS";
    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
    $mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
    $mech->get($login);
    $mech->form_name('loginForm');
    $mech->field(login => $username);
    $mech->field(passwd => $password);
    $mech->click();

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Any trouble shooting help would be really appreciated as after quite a while of searhing the forums I have found nothing.

Thanks in advance

Seb Morris

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Re: Logging into a HTTPS website with perl
by Corion (Patriarch) on May 18, 2014 at 15:00 UTC

    The easy way to find this out is to just look at the HTML of the login form:

    <form id="loginForm" onsubmit="DoLogin(); return false;" name="logon" 
+method="POST" action="#">

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    The site seems to use Javascript.

    Have you investigated what WWW::Mechanize has to say about Javascript?

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      Ok, thanks for the reply, do you think you could give me a hand setting up a javascript version?

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