Re^4: Headers and WWW::Mechanize

The other error I get is: No such field '__EVENTTARGET' at test.pl line 17...

use warnings;
use strict;

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

my $id = '14632';

my $url = "http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?".
          "fuseaction=user.viewfriends&".
          "friendID=" . $id;

$mech->get( $url );


my $form = $mech->form_name('aspnetForm');
$form->value('__EVENTTARGET' => 'ctl00$cpMain$pagerTop');
$form->value('__EVENTARGUMENT' => 2);
$mech->submit();

print $mech->content;
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Re^5: Headers and WWW::Mechanize by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 31, 2007 at 07:53 UTC
This error comes because WWW::Mechanize does not find a field by that name in the current form. Maybe such a field does not exist. Inspect your current HTML and your current form and look if they are what you think they are. Convenient methods for inspecting are: `print $mech->content; $mech->save_content('progress.html');` [download] . Also, the documentation recommends the `mech-dump` utility for inspecting a page and its forms and fields. Have you looked at WWW::Myspace ?	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: Headers and WWW::Mechanize
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 31, 2007 at 07:53 UTC

This error comes because WWW::Mechanize does not find a field by that name in the current form. Maybe such a field does not exist.

Inspect your current HTML and your current form and look if they are what you think they are. Convenient methods for inspecting are:

print $mech->content;

$mech->save_content('progress.html');
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Also, the documentation recommends the mech-dump utility for inspecting a page and its forms and fields.

Have you looked at WWW::Myspace ?

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