I am using WWW::Mechanize. I can successfully log in and navigate a series of webpages for my application.

One of the webpages has a button I need to press, and it is coded as:

  <button type="button" onClick="submitForm('page','otherurl.cgi')>
    Press Here
  </button>

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.. the problem is that the declaration of the form <form name="page" action="firsturl.cgi"> points to a different URL.

I've read the documentation; now I'm asking you.. is there a way of submitting a form to a URL other than the one encoded in the action field of the form?

Update: thanks to davidrw for a very helpful response. That does exactly what I want.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize->submit_form to a different action/URL by monarch

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