Hi Monks, I am trying to submit a webform using WWW::Mechanize. With the following code, only username field is getting filled. I am not sure why password field is not getting populated with value and thereby unable to submit the form. Any thoughts on this please ...


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $username = 'admin';
my $password = 'secret';
my $url = 'https://admin.testdomain.com';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new;
$mech->get($url);

$mech->set_fields( 
'ctl00$cntPlaceHolder$UsernameTextBox' => $username, 
'ctl00$cntPlaceHolder$PasswordTextBox' => $password 
);

$mech->submit_form();
my $page = $mech->content();
print $page;

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HTML Code after clicking view source

<td width="99%">
    <input name="ctl00$cntPlaceHolder$UsernameTextBox"type="text" valu
+e="admin" maxlength="60" id="ctl00_cntPlaceHolder_UsernameTextBox" cl
+ass="textField" /><span class="MandatoryText">*</span>
</td>

<td width="99%">
    <input name="ctl00$cntPlaceHolder$PasswordTextBox" type="password"
+ id="ctl00_cntPlaceHolder_PasswordTextBox" class="textField" /><span 
+class="MandatoryText">*</span>
</td>

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In reply to WWW::Mechanize - Unable to fill password field by doubledecker

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