Esteemed Monks,

I am trying to scrape a site using WWW::Mechanize. Somehow, I am not managing to submit a very simply form containing radio buttons. I hope you can help! This is the form code from the page source:

<form method="post" action="http://...">
<div class="ABC">
<div class="DEF"><input type="radio" name="Radio" id="1" value="1" /><
+label for="1">Option1</label></div>
<div class="DEF"><input type="radio" name="Radio" id="2" value="2" /><
+label for="2">Option2</label></div>
<div class="DEF"><input type="radio" name="Radio" id="3" value="3" /><
+label for="3">Option3</label></div>
</div>
<div class="buttons">
<div class="spacer"></div>
<input type="submit" class="form_buttons" name="submit" value="Submit 
+Form" />
<div class="form_buttons"><a href="http://..." title="...">...</a></di
+v>
<input type="hidden" name="ID" value="Form_ID" />
<div class="spacer"></div>
</div>
</form>
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And this is how I tried to submit the form:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use WWW::Mechanize;
use Crypt::SSLeay;
use HTTP::Cookies; 

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();

my $cookie_file = "Cookies.txt";

$agent -> cookie_jar( HTTP::Cookies->new( File => $cookie_file, autosa
+ve => 1 ));

my $page = 'http://...';

# Request the page.
$agent -> get( $page );

# Set the radiobutton 'Radio' to the second option.
$agent -> set_fields( 'Radio' => '2' );

# Now post the poll form to the URL given in the source code under act
+ion="http://...".
$agent -> post( 'http://...' );
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Thanks for your help with this in advance!
Cheers -
Pat

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