I'm having trouble getting WWW::Mechanize::Firefox to submit data to a site that uses JS on the return page that prevents WWW::Mechanize from being useful.

That's the way it goes. Mechanize cannot predict what js will do. If a website author does not want robots to ineract with his website, he can make it almost impossible to do so.

An example: unbeknownst to you a webpage's js adds "_abc" to the end of all form fields and then a program on the server checks for that suffix when examining the data. You can use Mechanize to fill out the form data, but unless you examine the js and discover that the js adds "_abc" to the end of each field, the data that you submit with Mechanize will be faulty.

In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox not filling out form by 7stud
in thread WWW::Mechanize::Firefox not filling out form by Anonymous Monk

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