I'm quite sure that WWW::Mechanize works under ActiveState Perl. What did you try and how did it fail?
I looked at http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-W.html where it lists Mechanize as a FAIL and unavailable. My proxy iswas failing to connect under PPM, so I haven't been able to test it directly but I've fixed the problem and installed Mechanize. Huzzah!
Automating JavaScript is best done by looking at the JavaScript and then programming the same stuff in Perl to recreate what the JavaScript does. A good thing to look at is what the browser finally sends over to the server.
That's almost surely the path I will be taking. I posted because it would be more elegant to "simply" execute the code. I couldn't find a module that said it could do that, but sometimes I miss things. Often, really. After all, there is a Javascript module, and a Mechanize module, so it isn't unimaginable...

Thanks for your response.

In reply to Re: Re: Mechanizing Javascript form by Roy Johnson
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