Andy, Can you tell me how mech-dump works? I'm trying to post a reply to a friends forum. I get the page like this 
get("http://user:passwd\@www.somesite.com/subdir/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/po
+st.htm?474")

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I checked response() and this works fine. I get the form and fill in the field like this. 
$w->form_number(1);
$w->field('Comments', 'woo-hoo');

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Again, this works fine. The button to post the reply isn't named so I do this. 
$w->submit_form();

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Then I check the response 
my $r = $w->response();
print 'error_as_HTML: '.$r->error_as_HTML."\n";

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and get a "401 Authorization Required" error.

I think the problem is that the ?474 in the url is a dynamic number assigned by the shtml code. That's one thing I have NO idea how to automate. I don't know the logic on how Microsoft generates that number or on how I can make the post.

Do you have any idea? Or can you point me in the right direction? I've given up.

Thanks,
monktim

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Redirecting Forms with WWW::Mechanize by Anonymous Monk
in thread Redirecting Forms with WWW::Mechanize by Ovid

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