Filling out a web form is very easy to do with WWW::Mechanize - it allows you to specify values for fields, almost like a real browser :
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $url = "http://your.messenger.com/"
my $a = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$a->get($url);
$a->follow_link( text_regex => qr/enter data/i );
$a->submit_form(
form_number => 3,
fields => {
username => 'yourname',
password => 'secret',
message => 'hello world!',
}
);
perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web
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