I'll assume that you have the relevant fields already filled in in your HTML file.

What you really want then, is send a HTTP request (GET or POST) that will send the data from the form to an URL on the web. And I wouldn't use HTML::Form for this kind of thing. (except when the html form is changing a lot - but then you probably wouldn't have it on your local filesystem).

The simplest way is probably

Collect all the data in the local form (you can probably just hard-code this in your script) and do a 

use LWP::Simple;
getprint "http://www.someurl.org/scriptname?param1=value1&param2=value
+2"

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This will send a GET request with the parameters encoded in the URL. Note that you will have to escape special characters in urlencoding. You might use the URI module for that.

See also 

perldoc LWP::Simple
perldoc URI

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In reply to Re: How to get a local form to be 'clicked'? by Joost
in thread How to get a local form to be 'clicked'? by Anonymous Monk

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