Mechanize does not support javascript. Perhaps if you view the javascript of the page you can find a different way to access what you want.

WIN32::IE::Mechanize - can't follow link - JavaScript involved might help (unless it was one of those nodes you found unsatisfactory).

Update: Follow-up Javascript Hyperlink seems to describe this situation. Is it of any help to you?

Sounds to me like the module in question here is Win32::IE::Mechnize, not WWW::Mechanize, so unless IE has been configured to disable JavaScript, this should not be a problem. At this point we don't know if the form in question contains any JavaScript, it may just be doing a redirect to a URL based on form criteria. From what the OP mentioned in the CB, this was a case of a new window opening with the IE 'Save as'/'Open With' dialogue box.

Thanks

Martin

I have the request headers and the Location: Now what can be done so that i get the data????
LOCATION:: http://website_name/export/download.jsp?t=csv&f=/ccexport/fs076/se1102186454649.csv

Request headers:
Host: website_name.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1
+6) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
+,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://website_name.com/rnavmap/evaluate.rnav/pidEjc9NdNrtXuC
+EdiuJgbZpwf57?activepage=subscriber.activity&action=export&uid=110218
+6454649
Cookie: mbox=PC#1217149956640-344459.05#1280338508|geo#1#1280338508|se
+ssion#1217266506140-54222#1217268367|check#true#1217266567|edge#app6-
+prod5.prod5.offermatica.com.1217266473358#1217266508; sops=1101500533
+487#1=O#2=A#3=O#4=A#; s_vi=[CS]v1|488C3C0400004D96-A3A096600000468[CE
+]; __utmz=152702054.1217149964.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|ut
+mcmd=(none); cclp_split=sc_01_ts=4501752|sc_01=200806_Award::Recipe B
+: You|; cclp_content=lp_uid=20080727_05:12:25.279_8EwuoNSSUMx28IshuRq
+sBsz_P1-WS031|; cclp_partner=prt_02_ts=4501918|prt_05_ts=4503694|prt_
+01_ts=4501752|prt_04_ts=4503366|prt_05=partner.name::ROVING|prt_04=pa
+rtner.name::ROVING|prt_03_ts=4502980|prt_03=partner.name::ROVING|prt_
+02=partner.name::ROVING|prt_01=partner.name::ROVING|; cclp_referral=p
+artner=ROVING|pn=ROVING|sitereferrer=http://website_name.com/login.js
+p|partner.name=ROVING|; __utma=152702054.1731584802.1217149964.121724
+6826.1217266509.5; JSESSIONID=0000Ejc9NdNrtXuCEdiuJgbZpwf:-1; pid=-1;
+ __utmc=152702054; s_cc=true; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D<
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is there a way to capture the window that pops up and says "Open the file" or "Save as"...

It sounds like target web page has some Javascript which redirect you. You need some tools to find what's happens. Try to use LiveHTTPHeaders extension of Firefox to look into HTTP headers.

After that you can just use redirection URL in your script.

a part of the html code which i think is relevant...

<form name="subscriber.export" method="post" action="/something/someth
+ing/pidXMxhf8BvVhiTih9LIxLqC-s81">
    <input type="hidden" name="activepage" value="subscriber.export">
    <input type="hidden" name="pageName" value="subscriber.export">
    <input type="hidden" name="uid" value="11021864546">
    <input type="hidden" name="filename" value="NXwC0VHkO3tkyOfknRf0vu
+xuOCPnbFTeIQ**">
    <input type="hidden" name="filetype" value="csv">
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this is the html code... and this is the submit button code...

<tr>
<td><br><input type="submit" value="Download Export File" name="action
+_download" id="download" class="btn-primary"></td>
        </tr>
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Hope this is of some use...

20080728 Janitored by Corion: Put HTML in code tags, as per Writeup Formatting Tips

Ok reformatted:
LOCATION::

http://website_name/export/download.jsp?t=csv&f=/ccexport/fs076/se1102186454649.csv

Request headers:

Host: website_name.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1
+6) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
+,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://website_name.com/rnavmap/evaluate.rnav/pidEjc9NdNrtXuC
+EdiuJgbZpwf57?activepage=subscriber.activity&action=export&uid=110218
+6454649
Cookie: mbox=PC#1217149956640-344459.05#1280338508|geo#1#1280338508|se
+ssion#1217266506140-54222#1217268367|check#true#1217266567|edge#app6-
+prod5.prod5.offermatica.com.1217266473358#1217266508; sops=1101500533
+487#1=O#2=A#3=O#4=A#; s_vi=[CS]v1|488C3C0400004D96-A3A096600000468[CE
+]; __utmz=152702054.1217149964.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|ut
+mcmd=(none); cclp_split=sc_01_ts=4501752|sc_01=200806_Award::Recipe B
+: You|; cclp_content=lp_uid=20080727_05:12:25.279_8EwuoNSSUMx28IshuRq
+sBsz_P1-WS031|; cclp_partner=prt_02_ts=4501918|prt_05_ts=4503694|prt_
+01_ts=4501752|prt_04_ts=4503366|prt_05=partner.name::ROVING|prt_04=pa
+rtner.name::ROVING|prt_03_ts=4502980|prt_03=partner.name::ROVING|prt_
+02=partner.name::ROVING|prt_01=partner.name::ROVING|; cclp_referral=p
+artner=ROVING|pn=ROVING|sitereferrer=http://website_name.com/login.js
+p|partner.name=ROVING|; __utma=152702054.1731584802.1217149964.121724
+6826.1217266509.5; JSESSIONID=0000Ejc9NdNrtXuCEdiuJgbZpwf:-1; BIGipSe
+rverProdUI=1227166730.20480.000; BIGipServerProdUICC=1227166730.20480
+.000; BIGipServerProdAOLUI=1227166730.20480.000; BIGipServerProdAOLSS
+=1227166730.20480.000; BIGipServerProdUIEA=1227166730.20480.000; pid=
+-1; __utmc=152702054; s_cc=true; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D
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