I'm trying to automate checking futures prices on www.intrade.com. I can use HTTP:Request to grab the front page using this code: 
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");

my $req =
HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://www.intrade.com/');

$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

my $res = $ua->request($req);

if ($res->is_success) {
    print OUT $res->content;
}

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The way the page is set up, though, I can't get to the actual pricing pages I'm looking for - only to the front page.

Excuse my web ignorance - I don't know much beyond simple html and cgi, so I don't even know what to call their setup, but the links on the page generally point to www.intrade.com/#. Also, if I open the source of the front page, the information stored in it is pretty useless - just a couple of meta tags with no real information (again, I apologize for my web ignorance).

What do I need to do or learn about in order to navigate through specific links to find and retrieve the page I want? I've tried looking through code for stock quote grabbing programs that I thought would be similar, but none of it was much help. I don't really know quite what I'm looking for, so a little direction would be very helpful.


Thanks!

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