So I have been trying to learn LWP Post, by going through a examples on the web. Except it seems like every example on the web, the page no longer exists (well specifically the page that I am supposed to post to)... I am hoping someone could tell me what I am doing wrong as I try to modify this example for Perl & LWP.

I am attempting to search AbeBooks for the book "Codex Seraphinianus" from the main page (AbeBooks). Here is the code that I am using: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict; 
use LWP;

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new( agent => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; 
+Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0' );
$browser->cookie_jar({});
my $response = $browser->post(
  'http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchEntry',
   # That's the URL that the real form submits to.
  [
    "bi" => "0",
    "bx" => "off",
    "ds" => "30",
    "sortby" => "2",
    "sts" => "t",
    "tn" => "Codex+Seraphinianus",
    "x" => "43",
    "y" => "10",
  ]
);
print $response->content;

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But this just sends me back the content of the advanced search page not the results page. I guess I really have two questions,

1) Is there a way to check the http header that goes to the request? I want to check the header versus when I do it in the Firefox browser (with the idea that will help me debug my code in the future)

2) How do I fix my code to get back to the proper results page?

Updated For what it is worth, there is JavaScript on the page, so that is a fun kick in the pants...

Cheers

In reply to LWP Post Question by drblove27

Title:
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