Hi guys, recently I've been trying to do a perl script to automate a form POST on a coldfusion server, however I don't know if the variables are treated in a diferent way than in a CGI script, this is the code I've been using and the HTML data. The important tags of html:

<input type="radio" name="KompressorVote" value="220">
<input type="radio" name="KompressorVote" value="221">
<form action="results.cfm" method="post" name="KompressorPollsForm" id
+="KompressorPollsForm"><input type="hidden" name="kact" value="">
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Also, I've noticed another that there's javascript involved in this mess:

<a href="javascript:applyVotes()"><img src="el/submit_button.gif" alt=
+"Accept" border="0"></a>

<script language="JavaScript">
    function applyVotes()
    {
    window.open ("","ApplyVote","width=400,height=300,toolbar=no,locat
+ion=no,directories=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,copyhisto
+ry=no"); 
    document.KompressorPollsForm.target = "ApplyVote"
    document.KompressorPollsForm.action = "results.cfm"
    document.KompressorPollsForm.kact.value = "applyVote"
    document.KompressorPollsForm.submit();
    }
    function showLastPoll()
    {
    window.open ("","ApplyVote","width=400,height=300,toolbar=no,locat
+ion=no,directories=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,copyhisto
+ry=no"); 
    document.KompressorPollsForm.target = "ApplyVote"
    document.KompressorPollsForm.action = "results.cfm"
        document.KompressorPollsForm.kact.value = "showLastPoll"
        document.KompressorPollsForm.submit();
    }
</script>
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So, what I'm trying to do is to POST the value "220" into results.cfm, so that it gets registered, with no success though, all I get is the same webpage where I'm supposed to select an option. This is the code I've been using:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

$var1="220";
$button="kact";
$ua=LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req= POST 'http://somesite.com/results.cfm', [var1=> $var1,button=
+>$button];
$content=$ua->request($req)->as_string;
print $content;
print $req;
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I'm confused right now, afaik this should work.. Any ideas guys?.. Thanks a lot in advance :)

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