I've got sort of a weird situation on my hands here. I'm trying to use WWW::Mechanize to log into a page where the username/password fields are not initially present on the page (they appear via JavaScript once I click a certain radio button). Doing 
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get('http://www.forex.com/login.html');
$mech->field('txtLogin', 'myuserid');

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gets me the error "No such field 'txtLogin' at /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1033". Meanwhile, I see from WWW::Mechanize::FAQ that there's zero support for JavaScript within Mechanize.

That said, is there a way to force Mechanize to pass parameter/value pairs to a form when no such parameters exist in the downloaded form? Alternately, is there any other workaround that might be applicable here? The page in the code snippet above is the real deal, so feel free to look at it for other fixes.

Thanks,
Alex Kirk

In reply to WWW::Mechanize for nonexistent fields? by schnarff

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