Hi,

Can anyone help me please? I am trying to simulate form submission. This is what I have tried. But the form->click() function does not seem to submit the form. When I try to download a page after that, it still downloads the page that says that I need to submit siteid, username and password.

Thanks.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTML::Form;
use LWP;
use URI;
require 'dumpvar.pl';

my $sId = 'siteID';
my $log = 'username';
my $pswd = 'password';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

my $url = 'http://xxx.yyy.html';
my $login_req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $login_res = $ua->request($login_req);
my $html = $login_res->content;

my $form = HTML::Form->parse($html, "http://xxx.yyy.html");
#dumpValue(\$form);
$form->value('site', $sId);
$form->value('user', $log);
$form->value('pass', $pswd);
$form->click;

$url = 'http://xxx.yyy.html';
$login_req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
$login_res = $ua->request($login_req);
print $login_res->content;

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Edited 2001-10-18 by Ovid

In reply to Problem with automated form submission by Anonymous Monk

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