This is going to take some explaining!

The place where I work has a firewall which stops me from posting on my favourite forum (Sorry, meant 2nd favourite ;) so I wrote a script that will pull the data from the forum and display it through my site, sidestepping the headers that define the forum as a forum. All ok so far?

I've managed to get the links to work (the site has relative links) but posting data to the forum is impossible - I just go back to the start page I made. (I'm not bothered about the pictures not working)

Please could you tell me:

  1. Why I can't post (probably overlooking something obvious)
  2. How to fix the above
(btw - I'm already working on the absolute links, so no need to tell me off about that!) 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
BEGIN {
  $|++;
}
use strict;
use lib "/usr/local/www/virtual/katgirl/modules";
use LWP::Simple qw(!head);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw/:standard/;
my $url = param("url");
my $surfurl = param("surfurl");
my $surfur1 ||= $url;
#if(!$surfurl){$surfurl = $url; }
my @file;
print header,
        start_html('web getter');

if($url){

    if($url =~ m/action/ig){
        @file = post($url);
    }else{
        @file = get($url);
    }

    foreach my $line(@file){
        #chomp($line);
        $line =~ s!href=\"!href=\"?surfurl=$surfurl&url=$surfurl\/!gi;
        $line =~ s!src=\"!src=\"$surfurl\/!gi;
        $line =~ s!action=\"!action=\"?surfurl=$surfurl&url=$surfurl\/
+!gi;
        print $line;
    }

}else{

      print p("Where do you want to go today?"),
      start_form,
      textfield(-default =>"http://", -name=> "url"),
      submit(-name=> "GO!"),
      end_form;

}

print end_html;

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In reply to Posting form data from within a virtual browser by katgirl

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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