Oh ok I missed the obvious.

You're doing everything right except for one thing - and let this be a lesson - what exactly are you clicking on?

Have you had a look at the source code of the webpage..? Evidently you have or you wouldn't have filled in the form name and fields correctly..

Need help? OK the answer is that you are not clicking on anything, for one, because you're blindly calling $mechanize->click(). Secondly, the website in question uses javascript to submit the form. THAT is the part you shouldn't have missed.

So to fix, consider merely calling $mechanize->submit() instead of ->click(). Then print out the result of $mechanize->success() and $mechanize->uri() to confirm this worked as expected. This particular form merely calls itself so the uri may not give any clues as to the success, but the boolean $mechanize->success() will tell you if you've succeeded.

In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize HTTPS by monarch
in thread WWW::Mechanize HTTPS by Anonymous Monk

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