WWW::Mechanize form

Alien has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey!How can i find the name of the form that's processing a login made with WWW::Mechanize . Let's consider the following example :

my $x=WWW::Mechanize->new();
$x->get("www.somesite.com");
$x->field("user_field","username");
$x->password("password_field","password");
$x->click();
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How can i find out where exactly my script sends its data ?

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Re: WWW::Mechanize form by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 16, 2006 at 12:59 UTC
The `forms` method returns a list (or an arrayref in scalar context) of HTML::Form instances for each form in the page. Alternately you can use `form_number` or `form_name` to retrieve a specific form. You can call the `action` method on these instances to retrieve the URI.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: WWW::Mechanize form by wfsp (Abbot) on Nov 16, 2006 at 11:06 UTC
One way might be to use WWW::Mechs content method to get the html and to then use an html parser to examine the forms action attribute.	[reply]
Re: WWW::Mechanize form by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2006 at 10:14 UTC
rtfm `print $mech->uri();` [download]	[reply] [d/l]