I'm looking for a perl module--LWP is a good start--that can spider through a Web process, looking for links and sending new requests based on HTTP responses (eg. automate setting up a Hotmail account) anyone know of such a robot or code that would be a good model for writing one?

I've starting writing one of my own that basically sends one request, looks for a link in the page using a regex, and sends another request, until the process is complete. The multi-step process I'm testing logs a user into my site, so I know the test was successful if a particular cookie is set (I can just check the cookie jar that LWP uses). I can also just grep the content for a "Success!" message that I know should be there if the login was successful.

I have looked at HTTP::WebTest, but this seems specialized for testing particular pages and their response times, not a sequence of pages and requesting new pages by using links in the content of requested pages. Any ideas?

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In reply to Wanted: Multi-page web robot for automated testing by meonkeys

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