My dear fellow Perl hackers, I using WWW::Mechanize to automate internal corporate procedures that span several web sites. I have a web site that pops up a JavaScript generated window. When I attempt to use $agent->click( "Continue" ) or  $agent->submit(), WWW::Mechanize> cannot click or submit the form. Is there a way I can strip out the JavaScript to simply the submitting and automation of these popup windows? Can I call JavaScript from WWW::Mechanize or insert my own JavaScript into the content?

Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

hackdaddy 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http:/
+/www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Blah Blah Update</title>
<link rel=StyleSheet href="/tools/tools.css" type="text/css">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
//-->
</script>
</head>
<html><body bgcolor="#cccccc">
<table align="center" valign="middle">
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" height="50" width="300"><p>Blah Bl
+ah Updated</p></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="bottom"><form name=searchForm method="g
+et" action="/tools/update">
<input type="button" value="Continue" onClick="opener.location.reload(
+);window.close();">
</form></td></tr>
</table>
</body></html>

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