Re^2: WWW::Mechanize clone

Ok, what im trying to do is get mech to submit a form return a captcha form me to input and then continue submitting the captcha. I got this to work through the console but im trying to get it to work through the browser with cgi. Now my problem is after i input the captcha i loose all the information stored in the $mech object. Ive spent hours (newb) fiddling with HTTP::Cookies but so far i only managed to save it to a file and not sure if its even the right cookies. So i read some more and found out it might be possible to dump the whole $mech object to a file and load it later i guess with using YAML. Actually i just tried

YAML::DumpFile('../data/saved.dat', $mech);
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And it worked it saved everything that was in the $mech now how do i load this for further use? or is there an easier method of accomplishing what im trying to do?

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Re^3: WWW::Mechanize clone by Fletch (Bishop) on Jun 05, 2007 at 13:38 UTC
At any rate it saved most of it. If you look at the YAML itself you'll see that it didn't get everything, specifically the `onerror` and `onwarn` callbacks: `... onerror: !!perl/code: '{ "DUMMY" }' onwarn: !!perl/code: '{ "DUMMY" }' ...` [download] So if you were doing anything special with these handlers you'd want to re-set them (`$mech->{onerror} = sub { ... }`; there's no API for changing these post-constructor so you've got to break encapsulation) after you've used YAML::LoadFile to read it back in. And I'd still be wary there might be other similar brittleness that I'm not seeing just serializing a brand new, unused instance. Update: Or try using YAML::Syck instead and set `$YAML::Syck::UseCode = 1`; however that'll still have problems if the coderefs in question are closures (since the enclosing lexical context is long gone).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: WWW::Mechanize clone by Anonymous Monk on Jun 05, 2007 at 06:25 UTC
perldoc YAML Load	[reply]