I'm trying to write a simple script to download a list of results available for the month of dec from a website. However, this is my first time trying to post to a form and I'm getting nowhere. The results I'm getting are as if I just called up the page and never hit the submit button. What am I doing wrong?
#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP; my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $url = 'http://www.gulfgreyhound.com/officialracingresults.asp'; my $response = $browser->post( $url, [ "subfolder" => "dec03", ] ); die "$url error: ", $response->status_line unless $response->is_success; die "Weird content type at $url -- ", $response->content_type unless $response->content_type eq 'text/html'; print $response->content;

In reply to posting to a form to get results by Anonymous Monk

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