Thanks, I had looked at the docs and totally missed that.

Hasn't fixed my problem though. Now I get "405: method not allowed", the method POST is not allowed for (URL), but that's not the URL I'm trying to submit to, it's the original page with the login form.

The form itself is a little strange, the action of the form is set to a vignette-looking HTML url.

Anyone want to look at the form, at http://users.guardian.co.uk/signin/0,12930,-5,00.html and tell me what might be going wrong?

I should say again, the form can be submitted without JavaScript, so what the point of their weird MD5-hashing of hidden fields and passwords is I don't know. 


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