Question about WWW::Mechanize

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

Hi Monks,

I want to submit a form, and the following works:

use WWW::Mechanize;
$mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get('http://www.abc.com/index.htm' );
$resp =  $mech->submit();
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However, I want to embed the html (containing the form) in my perl script rather than retrieving it using $mech->get.

How can I do that?

My Mechanize.pm is version .72 which doesn't have an update_html() method, which sounds like one way to do it.

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Re: Question about WWW::Mechanize by davidrw (Prior) on Jan 11, 2008 at 01:24 UTC
WWW::Mechanize is up to version 1.34 ... (if you really can't upgrade for whatever reason, you can try to subclass it yourself to add `update()` taken from the source of a newer version) `my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $mech->get('.'); # to make it internall create request/response objec +ts $mech->update_html($html); # then use normally` [download] WWW::Mechanize::Cached may be of interest as well	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Question about WWW::Mechanize by gam3 (Curate) on Jan 11, 2008 at 01:22 UTC
The very simplest way is to change the url: `use WWW::Mechanize; $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $mech->get('file://localhost/tmp/bob.html'); $resp = $mech->submit();` [download] Here the form is read from `/tmp/bob.html`. -- gam3 A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Question about WWW::Mechanize by Gangabass (Vicar) on Jan 11, 2008 at 03:03 UTC
Install new version of WWW::Mechanize? Or look into WWW::Mechanize (version 1.34) sources how update_html() implemented...	[reply]