I'm trying to read a page, change a form value, and then reload the page.

I can get the page OK, but I haven't been able to do the rest.

I've tried things like this:

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $req = POST 'http://thesite/thepage.aspx', [ errors => 0 ];

$html = $ua->request($req)->as_string;

$html =~ /name="__VIEWSTATE" value="([^"]+)"/s;

$viewState = $1;

my $req = POST 'http://thesite/thepage.aspx',
[ __EVENTTARGET => 'theItemID', __EVENTARGUMENT => 'newValue', 
__VIEWSTATE => $viewState, errors => 0 ];

$html = $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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but no joy.

I'll be happy to buy anyone who reveals the secrets of this mystery a beer the next time they're in Phnom Penh. Thanks.

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