Accessing frames with WWW::Mechanize

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

I use the WWW::Mechanize module to access a URL with two frames. I enter a word into the first frame and submit it, and then download the data that is returned in the second frame. But somehow it hangs on accessing the second frame, how to link frames in url and manipulate them ? The URL https://imgur.com/a/eBmBG

<html>
.......

<frameset rows="40%,*">
  <frame name="rtop" src="123.asp" target="rbottom">
  <frame name="rbottom" src="444.html" scrolling="auto">
.......
  </noframes>

</frameset>
</html>
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submit tag in HTML of the end of the first frame when linking it

<td width=28% align=center>
<input type="submit" name="act" value="xxx" class="cbutton">
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My Perl code

 #!c:\\perl\\bin

 use strict;

 use WWW::Mechanize;

 my $url      = "myurl";
 my $Part     = 'mykey';
 my $outfile1 = "out1.html";

 my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

 $mech->get($url);
 $mech->follow_link(tag => "frame"); # open first frame in document
 $mech->field ('' => $Part);
 $mech->submit();
 $mech->follow_link(tag => "frame"); # open 2nd frame in document, whe
+re it hangs

 my $output_page = $mech->content();

 open(OUTFILE, ">$outfile1");
 print OUTFILE "$output_page";
 close(OUTFILE);
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Re: Accessing frames with WWW::Mechanize by haukex (Archbishop) on Feb 12, 2018 at 16:40 UTC
Crossposted from StackOverflow. While crossposting is acceptable, it is polite to inform about it so that efforts are not duplicated.	[reply]