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in thread Browsing php pages properly?

No, because LWP doesn't look at the response body, and because WWW::Mechanize doesn't pass the JavaScript to a JavaScript engine. I think there's is a project to create a JavaScript engine in Perl, but I don't know its status.

Now, if you're only dealing with a single .php (or a set that behave identically), you could search the JavaScript code for the URL using a simple regexp, then fetch that page yourself.

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Re^4: Browsing php pages properly?
by TacoVendor (Pilgrim) on Feb 01, 2006 at 17:05 UTC
    I cannot search the java code for the url since the returned url is generated at the time of calling the link from the 1st page. The data after the '=' in the url is used to generate the page itself when called by the browser.

    After looking over the IE::Mech module, that looks like it will work for what I need. The integration of the OLE module will let me grab the pushed url and I should be ok at that point.

    ikegame, thanks for the info, especially the reference to IE::Mech. I hadn't come across that one before and would not have even thought about doing this that way.
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