Hello Monks,

I'm having some trouble working with forms in HTML. My project is to automate login to certain web pages and download information from them. I have done this successfully for one website. However, two other sites are giving me problems. Here is some sample code:

$login_url = url 'https://webbroker1.tdwaterhouse.com/TD/Waterhouse/ie
+4x/logonForm.asp';
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $login_req = GET $login_url;
my $login_res = $ua->request($login_req);
my $tb = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$tb->parse($login_res->content);
my @forms = @{$tb->extract_links(qw(FORM))};
my $f = HTTP::Request::Form->new($forms[0][1], $login_url);
$f->dump;

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If you visit the website given, you will see a login page where you type your Account Number and Password to gain access to the site. However, in the form that is downloaded (printed to STDIO with the dump command), the only fields that show up are a bunch of hidden fields, not the "UserID" and "Password", which are the two fields I need to fill out. I am aware of how to handle multiple forms per page, and this page contains only one form. This exact same code worked fine on another website (https://login.fidelity.com/ftgw/Fidelity/RtlCust/Login/Init) but on this one it does not work. Thank you very much for your help!

-Patrick

In reply to trouble filling out HTML form by diablo1024

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