Hello all,

I'm trying to write a small script using WWW::Scripter that will take data from a client's web site in order to automate some of their processes. The problem that I'm running into is that to access the data, I have to log on to the web site.

The web site uses a small JavaScript function to handle this. The function is:

 function Login() {                       
    if(document.forms[0].login_name.value == "") {
        alert("Please fill in your login name");      
        document.forms[0].login_name.select();
        return;
    }
    if(document.forms[0].login_pwd.value == "") {
        alert("Please fill in your password");
        document.forms[0].login_pwd.select(); return;
    }
    document.forms[0].submit();
}
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Using WWW::Scripter and the JavaScript plugin (and JE as the back end JS Engine) i've tried doing this:

 my sourceWebSite="http://xxxxxxxx";
 my $agent = WWW::Scripter->new();
 my $code;

 $agent->use_plugin(JavaScript =>
                       engine => "JE",
 );

 $agent->get("$sourceWebSite");

 $agent->plugin('JavaScript')->set(
          $agent,'document','forms[0]','login_name','value'=> 'xxxxxx'
    );

    $agent->plugin('JavaScript')->set(
           $agent,'document','forms[0]','login_pwd','value'=> 'xxxxxx'
    );
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I'm trying to use the Scripter class eval method to actually run the code. I set a variable $code to contain a string which is basically the JS function listed above and then called the eval method like so.

 $agent->eval($code,"JavaScript",$sourceWebSite);
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This doesn't work. At least, it won't then log in and provide me with the "member" content.

Anybody got any thoughts on what I'm missing?

Thanks

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