I'm not experienced with Mechanize, but there is a lot you can use from LWP. The method submit returns an HTTP::Response object that you can use to check for the results you get. With that object you can check whether you are being redirected or not. Just look into the headers and check the status code you are receiving. Status codes of class 30x indicate redirection.

There is also a chance you get a status code of 200 and yet being asked to redirect (refresh to some other url). In the code below there are a few methods that may get you started in looking into the response headers. Read LWP's docs.

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Data::Dumper;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $ua->request(GET "http://some.url");

print $response->headers_as_string;
print $response->content;
print $reponse->is_success;
print $response->status_line;
print Dumper($response);

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