ActiveX is always client side - it is code that runs on your system. My Japanese is nonexistent so I can't easily determine what you are trying to retrieve. Try looking at the page source in your browser to see if the information you want is buried there somewhere.

>>ActiveX is always client side See, that shows you how awful I am. :)

Already looked... definitely not there. Hence, I asked here. :) Even without speaking Japanese you can get the gist of the site. ActiveX Object loads, displays index. If you click one of the next or previous page links, only the ActiveX object updates... the page doesn't reload. The guts of the page are summed up in a few Javascript() routines. It sets start to increment * page number, checks the form for any newly selected checkboxes, then runs the following.

    function change(url)
    {
        document.getElementById('RESULT').innerHTML = '<br><br><br><br
+><br><br><br><center><img src="img/loading.gif"></center>';
        Initialize();
        if(req != null)
        {
            req.onreadystatechange = Process;
            req.open("GET", url,true);
                req.send(null);
        };
    }

    // ------------------------------
    // Initialize(ajax)
    // ------------------------------

    function Initialize()
    {
        try
        {
            req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
        }
        catch(e)
        {
            try
            {
                req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
        }
        catch(oc)
        {
            req = null;
        }
    }
        if(!req && typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined")
        {
            req = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
    };
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There's a little more to it than that, but that's generally it. I guess the idea would be to open the same ActiveX object with a Perl Module that my browser is opening?

This has not a lot to do with ActiveX itself.

It's just an XMLHttpRequest which retrieves the page contained in 'url'.
The activeX is only used in MS browsers, the other (imho normal browsers) will be using:
req = new XMLHttpRequest();

So... Find out what 'url' contains and use LWP::Simple or whatever to fetch the page...

GreetZ!,

ChOas

print "profeth still\n" if /bird|devil/;

If you use firefox with the firebug plugin you can trace request made via the XMLHttpRequest object(probably the ActiveX component in question on IE). Doing so I was able to find the content of the search at this url:

http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/search.cgi?ITEM_NAME=&
FORMAT_PS3=0&SORT=1&START=&FORMAT_PSP=0&FORMAT_PS2=0&FORMAT_PS=0&
JP_GENRE_CODE=&MAKER_CODE=&START_YM=&END_YM=&ONLY_DISC=0&
ONLY_ONLINE=0&BEST_FLAG=0&ARCHIVES=0&ON_SALE=1
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If you twiddle some of the URL params you should be able to mimic the search criteria you are looking for.