I have been having trouble getting the HTML::Form library to work under Fedora Core 1 (perl 5.8.1-92 with perl-libwww-perl-5.65-6). For some reason, the function HTML::Form>Parse doesn't return any forms for me.

For example, the following simple perl script: 

    #! /usr/bin/perl

    use HTML::Form;
    use HTTP::Request;
    use LWP;

    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
    my $uri="http://www.google.com";
    my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $uri);
    my $res = $ua->request($req);
    print $res->content;
    my $form = HTML::Form->parse($res->content, $res->base());
    print "Form: ${form}\n";

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Returns the source of the www.google.com page but fails to return the obvious embedded form.

If instead, I make the last line: 

        join(" ", $form->form);

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I get the corresponding error message:

"Can't call method "form" on an undefined value at ./myscript.pl line 14"

which occurs presumably because no form is returned!

I did not have any problems with this previously under RH8.0 with perl 5.8.0-88 and perl-libwww-perl-5.65-2.noarch.rpm

In fact, the above perl scripts still work when under Fedora Core 1 I 'chroot' to my old RH8.0 installation. It thus seems to be that something is wrong with the Fedora Core 1 perl environment.

Any suggestions on what might be going on and how I might troubleshoot it further?

In reply to HTML::Form->Parse (Perl) not working under Fedora Core 1 by Anonymous Monk

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