POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS

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

Some years ago, I used to work with WWW::Mechanize, where you POST'ed something via a call like

$mech->post($url, \%data2post);
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Today I started to study WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS (kind of the hottest thing nowadays), and it turned out that the old-style calls (as above) no longer work, producing an error with HTTP::Request::Common.

Naturally, neither there are books/manuals on this new module, nor, sadly, any comprehensive examples on the Web to be found on the matter. Would greatly appreciate some experience on POST in the module shared.

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Re: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2014 at 06:41 UTC
WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS does not currently support POST requests via `->post`, because Selenium does not support POST requests unless they are triggered by a form in the current HTML page.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by Anonymous Monk on Jul 20, 2014 at 07:51 UTC
So, update the dom with a new form from ->post, then submit said form? It should work :D (I'm guessing naturally)	[reply]
Re^3: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2014 at 07:55 UTC
This is the approach I plan to take eventually. The code is already there, but I still have to trick Selenium into actually returning the results. Selenium is not really intended for browser automation. It is more intended for simulating user intaction and so it provides very little programmatic interfaces to query the result state of a request.	[reply]
Re^2: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by pghilb (Novice) on Jul 20, 2014 at 12:35 UTC
Well... Thanks!	[reply]
Re: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by Anonymous Monk on Jul 20, 2014 at 02:12 UTC
... Naturally, neither there are books/manuals on this new module, nor, sadly, any comprehensive examples on the Web to be found on the matter... Naturally , its always a secret :) WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS#mech-post-url-options https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS#autodie https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS#log ... logLevel OFF DEBUG INFO WARNING ERROR https://metacpan.org/source/CORION/WWW-Mechanize-PhantomJS-0.03/lib/WWW/Mechanize/PhantomJS.pm https://metacpan.org/source/CORION/WWW-Mechanize-PhantomJS-0.03/examples/ https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS#SEE-ALSO Troubleshooting \| PhantomJS phantomjs --help	[reply]
Re^2: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by pghilb (Novice) on Jul 20, 2014 at 02:27 UTC
Been there, done that, got the scar. :) Browsed all of the above before asking the question, thanks. Tried to send %data2post with "params", then with "data", neither worked. Can't even figure out the difference between "params" and "data". Have you tried to POST something yourself, by chance?	[reply]
Re^3: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by Anonymous Monk on Jul 20, 2014 at 03:16 UTC
Did you try to POST something yourself, by chance? Nope, the test suite doesn't run well for me at all (my windows is probably too old) Been there, done that, got the scar. :) :?) But did you UTSL :?) https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS#Functions-that-will-likely-never-be-implemented `Functions that will likely never be implemented ->post I have no use for it ... sub post {` [download] Read more... (3 kB) `# Now, how to trick Selenium into fetching the response? }` [download] https://metacpan.org/source/CORION/WWW-Mechanize-PhantomJS-0.03/t/50-mech-post.t `plan skip_all => "POST requests via Selenium/ghostdriver/PhantomJS + are currently unsupported :-/";` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: POST in WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS by pghilb (Novice) on Jul 20, 2014 at 10:29 UTC