I have a thorny web problem. I'm using Perl's WWW::Mechanize.

Here is what I *think* is happening:

• 1. I surf along with Mechanize and get to a form page and fill it out. Let's call it form.html.
• 2. the mech submits the form to form.html via POST. At that point, the web server sends back a 302, redirecting my "browser" (the mech) to a "thank you for submitting" confirm.html page.
• 3. the mech chokes because it does what the RFC says - do not change methods on a 302 - so it tries to POST to confirm.html, which only allows GET.

This is what I think is happening. What I see from WWW::Mechanize after calling $mech->submit on form.html is "Error POSTing confirm.html: Method not allowed at ./some_script.pl line 325"

The mech is behaving properly - according to the RFC, the 302 is not supposed to change method types. However, most client browsers like IE do change to a GET when they're 302'd, and apparently some web servers (IIS?) expect that behavior.

The form(s) on the other end (which I have no control over) work fine in IE, but not via WWW::Mechanize. I can't do anything about the servers.

I don't see a hook to intercept things after doing $mech->submit().

Any ideas?

Messing around with thinks like "push @{ $mech->requests_redirectable }, 'POST';" don't help. Nor does playing with max_redirect or redirect_ok. I need some sort of "do things improperly, because stupid IIS expects everyone to run IE" flag ;)

-Drew

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