There is the number one rule for automating websites:

  1. Compare what your script sends to what your browser sends, and make your script send the identical data.

Otherwise, you are just stabbing in the dark, without really knowing where the differences are. My personal guess is that somewher/somehow the frames are tripping you up, or there is another frame that is supposed to send you a cookie, which you are not loading. There are many possibilities, but only you can check them out by comparing what your script sends against what your browser sends. I recommend the HTTP Live Headers for FireFox and Mozilla for convenient logging of browser requests, but HTTP::Recorder should also do this.

Update: Fixed link to Live HTTP Headers, spotted by kutsu

In reply to Re: WWW Mechanize not keeping session? by Corion
in thread WWW Mechanize not keeping session? by seaver

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