I've not used WWW::Mechanize before, but I have done something similar to what you are looking for using Net::SSLeay

My webserver sent a sessionID variable which was required for all POST requests (this is sent only for the first page, and is verified for all subsequent POST requests sent). After posting to the initial page, did you check for any <form> embedded in the resultant html ($contents in your code). With my webserver, each post request would result in an HTML with another <form> element in it, and using the same cookie, I was able to sent a post request to the CGI script embedded in the HTML.

I would check for some kind of cookie/sessionID being sent by the server with the initial HTML...

In reply to Re: Accessing a DSL modem with LWP by linuxfan
in thread Accessing a DSL modem with LWP by zentara

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.