Hello All. I hope that one of you programming wizards out there can help me!

I am trying to script a program to autologin for me with the following HTML code data. Although for some reason I can not seem to be able to fill the password field properly with WWW::Mechanize. Is the some hidden jewel of syntax structure I am not yet aware of? Any help concerning this issue would be much appreciated! :)

Please contact me as soon as you can to let me know!

Thanks in advance.

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#!usr/bin/perl 
use WWW::Mechanize; 
use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller; 
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new() 
my $formfiller = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller->new(); 
my $username = "user_name"; 
my $password = "password"; 
my $url = "http://www.myurl.com/default.aspx"; 
# Grab the home page, and click the login button to 
redirect to the correct page(HTML listed below). 
$mech->get($url); 
$mech->click_button(number => 1); 
# Set the username and password fields accordingly and 
submit. 
$mech->set_visible( $username, [password => $password] 
) ; 
$mech->submit(); 
# Store new HTML content in a temporary file and open 
it for viewing. 
$html = $mech->content(); 
open (OUT,">tmp.html"); 
print OUT $html; 
close (OUT); 
system("tmp.html");

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<html> 
<head>  
<title>Login</title> 
</head> 
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 
<form id="frmLogin" name="frmLogin" method="post" 
action="Login.aspx?__ufps=933290"> 
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE"  
value="aDxfX1A7QDw716znrKftnYTgo4csMTs+ Oz6urRmZvy6aJZj20y+gGEkgSS1/NA
+==">  
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTTARGET" value=""> 
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTARGUMENT" value=""> 
<script language=javascript><!-- 
function __doPostBack(target, argument){ 
  var theform = document.frmLogin 
  theform.__EVENTTARGET.value = target 
  theform.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = argument 
  theform.submit() 
} 
// --> 
</script>  
<font size="-1" color="Black">Authorized users, please
enter your trading user ID and password:<br> 
Please enter your user ID:<br> 
<input name="txtUID" size="32"/><br> 
Please enter your password:<br> 
<input name="txtPWD" size="32" type="password"/><br> 
<input name="cmdGo" type="image" src="Brand/00/go.gif" 
alt="Go"/><br> 
<input name="cmdHomeFromfrmLogin" type="image" 
src="Brand/00/home.gif"  
alt="Home"/></font></form></body></html>

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20050106 Janitored by Corion: Put code and HTML inbetween code tags

In reply to www: mechanize autologin issue by hiverbee

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