Fellow monks,

As explained in an earlier post, am trying to automate my usage of an on-line database using LWP. This is my first time using LWP, so if I say anything silly please have patience :)

I found the responses to my last post to be quite good, and now I have the following as code: 

use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = POST 'http://lsa.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/LSA-sentence.html',
                    [ txt1 => 'I hate Jimmy. I love Jimmy.'];
$content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
open(OUTPUT, ">>result.html");
print OUTPUT $content;

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Which manages to retrieve the web-page LSA-sentence.html, but not the resulting web-page produced by the CGI ":http://lsa.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/LSA-sentence-x.html". I believe this is b/c the web-page features a "Submit" button am not pressing. I believe this is it in HTML from the web page: 

INPUT TYPE="submit"  VALUE="Submit Texts">
INPUT TYPE="reset"  VALUE=" Reset to Defaults ">

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How do I press those buttons, if that is needed, or is there some other way to get my precious resulting web-page? I assume it's in my request "hash" - but how? Once I get it - I assume it will be in content - I would like just to print it to a file for later processing.

Thanks!

Harry

In reply to Problem retrieving Web-page using LWP - help! by hhalpin

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