I am using WWW::Mechanize to navigate around a site. I have a problem where RubyRails generated web pages are creating a href that does a delete.

 <a href="/accounts/112159/account_views/983516" data-confirm="Remove user bob test from account?" data-method="delete" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Icon-trash" src="/images/v4/icon-trash.png?cb4c0a4" /> Delete</a>

so i would like to do

$result = $m->follow_link( url_regex => qr/account_views\/983516/i );

but the href runs some sort of script and opens a popup box to confirm if you really want to delete.

Anyone know how to cope with this in perl LWP ?

Many thanks

In reply to href with data-method="delete" by adavis

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