I'm using mech as part of a scrape of an HTML page that is driven by a hidden form that looks like this:

<form name="content" method="post" id="Form2">
<input type="hidden" size="-1" name="cid" id="Hidden5">
<input type="hidden" size="-1" name="cntid" id="Hidden6">
<input type="hidden" size="-1" name="attid" id="Hidden7">

Note it is a POST. The form content is set by in a link that looks like this 
<a href="javascript:popContent('detail',1234,0,0);">Something</a>

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The javascript itself looks like this 
function popContent(action,cid,cntid,attid)
{
  if (action == "detail")
  {
    document.content.cid.value = cid;
    document.content.action = "detail.asp";
    document.content.submit();
  }
  else
  {
    document.content.cid.value = cid;
    document.content.cntid.value = cntid;
    document.content.attid.value = attid;
    document.content.action = "preview.aspx";
    document.content.submit();
  }
}

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When the user clicks on the link what happens at the end of the day is that the POST equivalent of this GET happens

http://..../detail.asp?cid=1234&cntid=&attid=

Sooooo my question is how do I deal with detail.asp from within mech? I can set cid, etc. so all that is OK. But how do I deal with document.content.action = "detail.asp"?

My second question (I hope I'm allowed more than one) is how can I make a copy of the current mech to use so I don't step on the 1st mech's environment since I'll need it later. Like having two browsers going.
Thanks

In reply to WWW::Mechanize questions by puff

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