a) Does form filling using www::Mechanize, more specifically the click_button function work if the form's such that on clicking, it goes to a javaScript??

If the form and its input fields are defined in the HTML (and not as a document.write from JS), WWW::Mechanize will see them. You could fire up WWW::Mechanize::Shell (written by our local hero Corion) and fill out the values interactively and post the submit to IPAllocSubNets.asp. Once you have it working in W::M::S, it is a trivial matter to write the native W::M program.

b) I've heard many times that Mechanize can't handle JavaScript() but is there a solution to move to the next page for this particular source code: (It's a bit long, so I've pasted the essential part of it)

Right, in the general case, you can mimic what the JS code does (in this case, it's only error-checking that you are free to ignore), and then perform the submit. On the server side, there is no way to distinguish if the JS code was run or not. All it sees is a POST query with a pile of CGI parameters.

So if you ensure that your form inputs contain sensible data, there is no reason why you couldn't get this to work. Good luck.

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In reply to Re: NO CLICKABLE INPUT by grinder
in thread NO CLICKABLE INPUT by Battle_Fury

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