Ah ok ! Fair enough.

What I'm trying to do is make a simplified 'web scraper' Frequently within our Org I need to collect data from various systems ( say checking the names on the internal colleague register )

But we have many systems and some use javascript. Because of this I was leaning towards Mech::Firefox since it handles it for you.

I envisaged putting in the internal web address, then receiving back a set of links, forms, etc which the user could then select. I would save the choices in a config file and so allow the user to avoid repetitive checks.

So i'm bit confused by the answer as it suggest using HTML::Form but the documentation states it doesn't return this type of object. I'd like to understand it properly as I intend to expand the code substantially

In reply to Re^4: Completely Confused with Mechanize::Firefox Forms by help_3452
in thread Completely Confused with Mechanize::Firefox Forms by help_3452

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