So you have written code to automate a website, but at a certain point you want to actually use the website your self - for example, a script logs you in. This snippet shows you how to do a handoff of the HTML to Internet Explorer, even with working relative links. The only problem that remains is cookies - these could propably be installed via some injected JavaScript code, but I haven't given that much thought. If Mozilla has anything comparable, I'd like to hear about it - I really like this method of debugging my web automation scripts.
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;

{
  my $browser;
  sub browser {
    unless ($browser) {
      $browser = Win32::OLE->CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Applicatio
+n");
      $browser->{'Visible'} = 1;
      $browser->Navigate('about:blank');
    };
    $browser;
  };
};

sub handoff {
  my ($uri,$html) = @_;

  my $document = browser->{Document};
  $document->open("text/html","replace");
  
  # If there is no <BASE> tag, set one.
  $html =~ s!(</head>)!<base href="$uri" />$1!i
    unless ($html =~ /<BASE/i);
  
  $document->write($html);
};

my $html = <<HTML;
<html><head></head><body>
<!-- Note the relative image path here ! -->
<img src="images/hp0.gif"><img src="images/hp1.gif"><img src="images/h
+p2.gif"><br />
<form action="/search" name=f>
<input maxLength=256 size=55 name=q value="">
<input type=submit value="Go Go Go" name=btnG>
</form>
</body></html>
HTML

handoff("http://www.google.de/",$html);

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