Hi all, I'm trying to get search query results from a web database. I'm using the WWW::Mechanize module with max_redirect = 100, but still get stuck in the middle of the process. I'm getting an interim HTML page which says that the search is in progress. How can I skip that page and get the final results page? here is the code:

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new(max_redirect=>100); 

### First call - authentication
 
$agent->get('http://search.library.nhs.uk/nhs_sse/zengine?');
    
### Second call - run the search query
    $agent->get('http://search.library.nhs.uk/nhs_sse/zengine?VDXactio
+n=ZSearchAdvanced');
    $agent->form_number(2); 
    $agent->set_fields('search_term_row1'=>'science',
                       'attr_type1_row1'=>'4');
    $agent->click();

print $agent->content;
[download]

Thanks in advance!

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