Wow. That's a big paragraph, and I've only got a slight clue what you're actually asking.

Nevertheless, you can probably remove all references to LWP, HTTP::Request, HTTP::Cookies and HTML::Form from your code and replace them with WWW::Mechanize, which should give you a much cleaner interface to the web-based tool.

As for the rest of your question: what is your question? :-)

Updated because reformatting made the question slightly clearer

I stand by my recommendation of WWW::Mechanize, as it wil almost certainly make your code a lot simpler. The only thing it doesn't do (as far as I know) is give you the value of a filled in textarea field. HTML::Form should be able to do that for you: 

$form = HTML::Form->parse($html, $base_uri);
$value = $form->value( $name );

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You can then parse $value and use the set_field() method of WWW::Mechanize to set the field value to the new value.

If you want more information, you're going to have to go into more detail: what's the code of your script, what's the code of the html page you want to parse. and what do you want to submit back to the router.

Most of us regular monks are glad to help, but we can't read your mind :-)

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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