LWP & image submit buttons

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

I've got a form that uses POST and has three image buttons that act as submit buttons. Clicking on one of the images submits the form and sends you to a certain page associated with the image you chose. WWW::Mech is unavailable. I was told that I must send this in the header:

Input_tag_name.x=0&Input_tag_name.y=0

Where the Input_tag_name is the name value of the image I want. Okay, but how do I use headers when my code looks like this:

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;         
my $response = $browser->post(
  'https://www.whatever.com/asdf.cgi',
  [
    'id'  => $id,
    'passwd' => $pass,
  ],
);
die "Error: ", $response->status_line
 unless $response->is_success;
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In other words, I want to send the headers and the rest of the POST data as shown above. Do I need to use a separate module or can I do this with LWP? Thanks.

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Re: LWP & image submit buttons by neuroball (Pilgrim) on Jan 18, 2004 at 06:00 UTC
You already use the right code and also send information using the post header. The information you already send is `id` and `passwd`. The only thing to make the script work like you want it, is to add the other key/value pairs to the header as shown in the code below. `my $response = $browser->post( 'https://www.whatever.com/asdf.cgi', [ 'id' => $id, 'passwd' => $pass, 'Input_tag_name.x' => 0, 'Input_tag_name.y' => 0, ], );` [download] /oliver/ Hans: Not ze problem!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: LWP & image submit buttons by pg (Canon) on Jan 18, 2004 at 06:17 UTC
Try this: `my $response = $browser->post( 'https://www.whatever.com/asdf.cgi', [ 'id' => $id, 'passwd' => $pass, 'Input_tag_name.x' => 0, 'Input_tag_name.y' => 0 ], );` [download] UserAgent will put this into the form you want: `Input_tag_name.x=0&Input_tag_name.y=0` "I was told that I must send this in the header" I don't think this is precise, the data you post goes to the content, not the header. For get, it goes to the header.	[reply] [d/l] [select]