I'm about halfway through my first (painful) day of writing tests for the web application mentioned in starting to write automated tests, and i've run into an impasse ... because the current incarnation is *very* dependent on cookies.

I've read and re-read the perldoc for WWW::Mechanize and Test::WWW::Mechanize, and it *appears* that I'm creating a valid cookie jar, but there are no cookies to be found.

I've looked through the source code to be sure, and not *all* of the cookies are set via Javascript, so my assumption is that I'm doing something wrong with the cookie jar ... 

my $robot = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new( cookie_jar => {} );
$robot->get( $frontPage );
warn Dumper $robot->{cookie_jar};

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Now, if the frontpage *does* in fact set a cookie, I should see something in the Dumper output that indicates an accepted cookie, correct?

In reply to WWW::Mechanize and cookies by geektron

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