500 error when using WWW::Mechanize

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

Hi, Monks

I have a web page which will change the form action upon submit though javascript. It change from http://url1 to https://url2. I tried to change the form action by

$a->current_form()->action(q{https://url2})
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But it always give me 500 error. While accessing the web site with browser is OK.

Any one could help on this?

Thanks.

Edit, BazB: changed title. Added code tags.

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Re: 500 error when using WWW::Mechanize by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 17, 2003 at 08:43 UTC
There must be still something else that you are missing. Your changing of the action looks OK to me, so you should put a http logging proxy inbetween your browser and your net connection and compare that to the requests/content that WWW::Mechanize sends. As you don't give more hints, it's hard to be more specific. My best guess is, that some JavaScript sets some other hidden fields that your WWW::Mechanize script dosen't set (yet). `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` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: 500 error when using WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Oct 17, 2003 at 08:53 UTC
Hi, I use the ethereal sniffer found that, after the syn/ack and client send hello messagem,the server reply a "TLS" error of "handshake Failure". While I'm sending the client Hello message using SSLv2. Will this "SSLv2" and "TLS" match?	[reply]
Re: 500 error when using WWW::Mechanize by robartes (Priest) on Oct 17, 2003 at 08:36 UTC
Your web server error log should give you more information about the cause of the error. Check that first. CU Robartes- who would also like to point to fatalsToBrowser	[reply]