I have a working Activeperl script on my Windows box that logs in to Yahoo and downloads some HTML files.

I transferred that script to a Linux box today, and now the script does not work. Specifically, the form is not being submitted.

Activeperl script runs on:
WinXP
Perl 5.8.4
WWW-Mechanize version 0.72

Same script on Linux:
Ubuntu 5.10
Perl 5.8.7
WWW-Mechanize version 1.18


I have tried many different methods per the documentation on CPAN (click(), submit(), click_button()), and none of the methods log me in successfully.

I have Dumped the form and verified that the user and password fields are being set correctly.

The various submission methods that I tried do not die(), so I can not see why it will not work on the Linux box.

Has anyone ever run into this sort of thing before? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize submission problem by no21

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