Thanks for all the replies and I guess the reason I am not making progress is because I am doing a poor job of explaining the problem. My apologies. I know what is happening so let me try to clarify.

When I access the login page it includes a link to a javascript that simply does a "data=<some hash string>". The submit javascript uses that hash to encrypt the login password. Doing all that with perl is probably the easy part. The hard part is extracting that from the javascript source so I can get the hash string. With both Mech and LWP it seems the embedded javascript source is there but the linked is not.

After more digging I THINK I know what has to be done so at this point I am asking for some reassurance. If I understand Mech, the first get retreives everything except links are not downloaded. Instead a list of links is built. Do I need to make another call to get the links I need? If so (this is more of a browser question I think) does the server know the subsiquent requests are from the same "session"? I use that word for lack of any better way to make the point as there real is no session context here. What concerns me is that if the javascript source does not come with the initial page, it will issue a different hash string that, when used, will not result in the correct encryption. Does a browser request links individually like Mech seems to? Perhaps the string is just a time based thing.

Thanks again.

In reply to Re^6: WWW::Mechanize and fooling server for javascript by gw1500se
in thread WWW::Mechanize and fooling server for javascript by gw1500se

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