Talk to Bob via the Internet by running the interactive script. Press Ctrl-C to quit. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::Form;

print "Initializing...\n\n";

my $agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/2003
+0624";
my $url = "http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=e48a36fe6e34d
+0a6";
my $form = initform($agent, $url);
my $reply = getreply("hi there", $form);

print "Bob says> $reply\n\n";
print " You say> ";

while (<STDIN>) {
    $reply = getreply($_, $form);
    print "Bob says> $reply\n\n";
    print " You say> ";
}

sub initform {
    my ($agent, $url) = @_;
    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent(agent=>$agent);
    my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url);
    my $response = $ua->request($request);
    my $html = $response->content;    
    my $form = HTML::Form->parse($html, $url);
    return $form;
}

sub getreply {
    my ($msg, $form) = @_;
    $form->value(message => $msg);
    my $response = LWP::UserAgent->new->request($form->click);
    my $reply = $response->content;
    $reply =~ /<b>mytest:<\/b>\s*(.*?)<br>/s;
    return $1;
}

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