Hi bauer1sc

When I run the code above I cannot access www.blankurl.biz, it does not appear to exist. I think it will be difficule to assess the problems you are having with the form without being able to visit the web page...

As far as the stripping of HTML goes, it works fine on Google using the code below: 
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::Strip;

my($url) = 'http://www.google.co.uk';
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck =>1);
my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

$mech->agent_alias('Linux Mozilla');

$mech->get($url) or die "Page $url can't be reached";
print "Made it past the url test";
my $page = $mech->content;
my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $page );
$hs->eof;
print $clean_text;

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The output is: 
Made it past the url test

iGoogle | Sign in Web      Images      News      Maps New!      Produc
+ts      Groups      Scholar      more »      Advanced Search    Prefe
+rences    Language Tools Search:  the web  pages from the UK Advertis
+ing Programmes - Business Solutions - About Google - Go to Google.com
+ ©2007 Google

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Which is the page contents with all the HTML stripped out. What are you expecting?

In reply to Re: Web Spider problem by rpanman
in thread Web Spider problem by bauer1sc

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