I am trying to write a web-client to upload some data (not just a file)automatically to a web-server.

When the web-site is accessed interactively, in a browser, dynamic web-pages are displayed, in response to user input and interaction. The goal is to provide values for fields on these pages, from the Perl client, and to cause these values to be sent to the web-server, as they would from the browser.

I have installed Firebug in my copy of Firefox, in order to understand the DOM structure (?) of the dynamic pages, which is not publicly documented

In my Perl installation, I have installed "WWW:Scripter", with the Javascript plug-in and the SpiderMonkey engine. However, I am unsure how to access the dynamic page content (which I believe should be being created by JavaScript, sent from the server), from within Perl.

Using $response->content, I have only been able to see the original, vestigial HTML structure, prior to its modification by the JavaScript.

I would be delighted to hear from someone with more experience of this to know whether "WWW::Scripter" is a blind alley and, if it is not, to get a example which would help me make progress.

On another, less dynamic site, I did have some success with "WWW:Mechanize", which I used to build up some experience of handling a proxy and using secure http.

Many thanks.

In reply to Perl Web Client to Interact with Dynamic Web Pages by WebDFeat

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