Hello, I'm trying to use WWW::Mechanize to interact with a website. I'm having trouble getting past the username/password screen, however. Here is what I have:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$m->agent_alias('Linux Mozilla');


$m->get('http://alumni.nd.edu/s/1210/start.aspx?sid=1210&gid=1&pgid=3&
+cid=40');

printf("%s\n", $m->title());
$m->dump_forms();
$response = $m->submit_form(
    form_number => 1,
    fields        => {
        'cid_40$txtUsername'    => '<username>',
        'cid_40$txtPassword'    => '<password>',
    }
);

die unless ($m->success);
#printf("response message is %s\n", $response->message);
printf("%s\n", $m->title());

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I receive a response of "OK" from the web server when I run the script, yet the title of the page hasn't changed, indicating to me that the username and password fields aren't being filled out. Given the content returned by $m->dump_forms(), am I filling out the username and password fields correctly? What else should I check for?

In reply to form not being filled out by WWW::Mechanize by Special_K

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