As long as you don't post the URL of the site you are trying to automate, I can only poke around in the dark - an exercise not very rewarding. I suggest that you install my module WWW::Mechanize::Shell, which allows you to explore a website interactively and afterwards spit out a complete Perl script that recreates what you did manually.

My guess is, that the following commands in WWW::Mechanize::Shell should be sufficient in getting you to your goal :

get http://www.example.com/
value login "username"
value password "secret"
click "Login"
# You get a page back which is a frame page
links
# look at the links
open "/data_frame/"
value age 99
click "continue"
content

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If you absolutely do not get WWW::Mechanize::Shell to install, I will try to translate that script into Perl manually, but please try ::Shell first, as it can display the current page in your browser for easy review.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Getting result page using WWW::Mechanize by Corion
in thread Getting result page using WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk

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