Thanks so much! I feel like it's almost there. Just having a bit of trouble saving the cookie. I see it but for whatever reason it's not getting saved as I think it should be Here's my code: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTTP::Cookies;

my $url = 'http://emma.msrb.org/MarketActivity/RecentTrades.aspx';
my $cookies = HTTP::Cookies->new( file => "cookies.dat",autosave => 1,
+ ignore_discard => 1 );
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( cookie_jar => $cookies );
$mech->proxy(['http'], 'http://http.proxy.fmr.com:8000');
my $response = $mech->get($url);
        $cookies->save( "cookies.dat");
if ($mech->success()){ print "Successful Connection\n"; }
else { print "Not a successful connection\n"; }
my ($button) = $mech->find_all_inputs(
        type  => 'image',
        name_regex => qr/yesButton$/,
);
print("button = $button->{name}\n");
if (defined $button) {
        print "clicking button...\n";
        $mech->click($button->{name});
        $cookies->save( "cookies.dat");
        $mech->dump_text;
}

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when I run it everything looks good except that this is wat I'm getting from the dump_text method.

Object movedHTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:03:11 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 Location: http://emma.msrb.org/MarketActivity/RecentTrades.aspx Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 170 Connection: close Set-Cookie: Disclaimer=Ratings; expires=Thu, 19-Jul-2063 20:03:11 GMT; path=/ Object moved to here.

and nothing is getting into the cookies.dat file besides #LWP-Cookies-1.0 Frustating. I thought maybe I should call the get method again but that does nothing different. I'm sure I'm just missing something and again thanks so much for your help.

In reply to Re^2: Getting data from an ASPX generated web page by billycote
in thread Getting data from an ASPX generated web page by billycote

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