If you want to avoid the complexity of LWP and other HTML parsing modules, you may want to look at WWW::Chat, which is one of the easiest way to navigate through websites with perl. This modules creates LWP + HTML::Form scripts automatically via the webchatpp program.
There's still some features missing in this module, but it usually does a fair job. And more features may be added soon!

A simple example webchatpp script of what you want may look like this:

GET http://www.mysite.com/loginpage.html
EXPECT OK

FORM login
 F login=OeufMayo
 F password=s33kret
 CLICK
EXPECT OK

FOLLOW /Interesting link/
EXPECT OK

for (@links){
  print join("\n", map{ "@$_[1]\n\tURL: @$_[0] "} @links);
}

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Pretty simple, isn't it?

<kbd>--
my $OeufMayo = new PerlMonger::Paris({http => 'paris.mongueurs.net'});</kbd>

In reply to Re: Retrieving contents of web pages by OeufMayo
in thread Retrieving contents of web pages by RayRay459

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