Hey there, I'm having some issues in filling out a form on a webpage with WWW::Mechanize that contains disabled fields. 
bash-3.2$ mech-dump --forms "http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/"
GET http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm [form1]
  fuseaction=search              (hidden readonly)
  MakeID=                        (option disabled) [*/Any Make]
  xMakeID=                       (hidden readonly)

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My problem is the disabled fields, they seem to be generated by javascript unlike the others. I've searched around and I found someone who had a similar problem, they suggested using HTML::Form::ForceValue. So here is my code ... 
use strict; 
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::Form::ForceValue;

my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
$m->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' ); 

$m->get("http://www.carzone.ie/");
$m->follow_link( url_regex => qr/Used/i );

$m->set_fields(
    #MakeID             => '32',
    #ModelID            => '281',
    #CountyID           => '10',
    xMakeID            => '32',
);

$m->form_name("form1")->find_input("MakeID")->force_value("32");
$m->form_name("form1")->dump;

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And the output is the following: 
GET http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm [form1]
  fuseaction=search              (hidden readonly)
  MakeID=32                      (option disabled) [:/Any Make|*32]
  xMakeID=32                     (hidden readonly)

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So it looks like it is setting the desired value, but the output is using 'Any Make', which suggests the forced value is being ignored. I'm pretty knew to this as a whole, so i'm not sure where to go from here. Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize and disabled form field by goldfish_

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