Hello Monks,
I have spent the last two days trying to figure out why my short Perl script does not retrieve the text between <body> </body> of a website but got no luck. If you have time, please take a look and let me know why please. I am a beginner in Perl and HTML as well so take it easy on me please. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
#  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent(keep_alive=>1,agent=>'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U
+; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11)
Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11');
  # Create a request

my $response = $ua->post('http://www.sanmateocountytaxcollector.org/SM
+CWPS/SearchParcels',{parcelNumber=>'048022230',searchType=>'parcel',l
+istFirst=>'S',bkList=>'SS',addressTypeDsp=>'',addressType=>'',actionT
+ype=>'search',nextPage=>'./pages/parcelList.jsp',parcel1=>'048',parce
+l2=>'022',parcel3=>'230'});


 my $u = $response->header('location') or die "missing location: ", $r
+esponse->as_string;
 print "redirecting to $u\n";
# $r = $ua->get($u);
 $r = $ua->simple_request(GET $u);
print $r->as_string;

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Thank you for your help.

In reply to Help With Post-Redirect-Get Problem by brian123

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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