First, I have to say that despite the fact that my program still doesn't work, I have learnt so much from asking my questions at Perlmonks. Thank you Monks!

OK, so I'm using WWW::Mechanize to try to login to a site so that I can parse some of the content on the site. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm not successfully 'logging in'.

The form on the site looks like this: 


<form onSubmit="return validLogin( this );" action="/servlet/LoginServ
+let" METHOD="post" name="enterLogin">
<input type="text" tabindex="1" size="8" name="loginId">
<input type="password" tabindex="2" size="8" name="Password">
<input TYPE="hidden" name="action" value="loginFrame">
<input type="hidden" name="app" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="sessType" value="new">
<input type="image" tabindex="3" src="/homepage/gobutton.gif" border="
+0">
</form>

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I used the update_html method to remove "onSubmit=return validLogin( this );" so that it doesn't call the javascript (it just changes the username/password to uppercase).

Here is what my code looks like: 

use LWP::Simple;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck=>1 );
$agent->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new);

# point to the url of the login form
$m->get("http://www.mydomain.com/servlet/LoginServlet");
my $html = $m->content;
$html =~ s[onSubmit="return validLogin\( this \);"][]g;
$m->update_html($html);

$m->submit_form(
   form_name => "enterLogin",
   fields => {
      loginId=> "XXXXXXX",
     Password=> "YYYYYYY",
        action=> "loginFrame",
        app=> "",
        sessType=> "new"
   }
);
print "success?:";
print $m->success();
print "\n";

my $url1 = "http://www.mydomain.com/private/Servlet?var1=apples&var2=o
+ranges";
$m->get($url1);
print $m->content;

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The code above prints the login page ....meaning, it didn't really log me in.

Any ideas why this isn't working? Am I supposed to be doing something with the input/image tag?

thank you!

2006-06-08 Retitled by GrandFather, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Not logging in'

In reply to Script using WWW::Mechanize fails to log in by Anonymous Monk

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