Hi experts,

I have a site at: https://steamcommunity.com/login/home/?goto=market%2F which I would like to login to with a Perl script. I had previously used WWW::Mechanize but just found out the site uses javascript, specifically this javascript:

    function DoLogin()
    {
    var form = document.forms['logon'];

    var username = form.elements['username'].value;
    username = username.replace( /[^\x00-\x7F]/g, '' ); // remove non-
+standard-ASCII characters
    
    var password = form.elements['password'].value;
    password = password.replace( /[^\x00-\x7F]/g, '' ); // remove non-
+standard-ASCII characters

    if ( g_bLoginInFlight || password.length == 0 || username.length =
+= 0 )
        return;

    g_bLoginInFlight = true;
    $('login_btn_signin').hide();
    $('login_btn_wait').show();
    
    new Ajax.Request( 'https://steamcommunity.com/login/getrsakey/',
        {
            method: 'post',
            parameters: {
                username: username,
                donotcache: ( new Date().getTime() )
            },
            onSuccess: OnRSAKeyResponse,
            onException: function( req, e ) { throw e; }
        }
    );
       }

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To login (find the javascript here: https://steamcommunity.com/public/javascript/login.js?v=264288658&). The question I have is how do I login to this site, somebody has said I could still use Mechanize but I wondered if LWP::UserAgent and POST would work.

Thanks in advance for your time, Seb Morris

In reply to Help logging into a website with LWP::UserAgent by SebMorris

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