Re: modifyed http page in browser

Sorry, cant get on. This is my actual code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use WWW::Mechanize;
use Win32::Process;
use LWP;

use strict;


my $url="http://thewebside";

my $page;
my $inhalt;

my $firefoxpfad="C:\\firefox\\firefox.exe";
my $firefox="firefox";

#####  page holen #############################

$page = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
#$page = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$page->get($url);
$page->success or die "Can't get the searched page";

#$page->form_name( "contactForm1" );
$page->form_number( 1 );

$page->field('contactFormId' => "1");   ### hidden field, is already s
+et
$page->field('name' => "myname");
$page->field('message' => "Hello");

##### page speichern ########################

$inhalt = $page->content;

## normally I would like to open firefox with $inhalt which should
## contain already the filled fields
## but here I save it to disk


#print $inhalt;

open (ERGEBNISFILE, ">ergebnisfile.html") || die "Kann \"ergebnisfile\
+" nicht oeffnen $!";        
printf ERGEBNISFILE "%s\n" ,"$inhalt";

close (ERGEBNISFILE);

=BEGIN
##### open in browser #####################

                Win32::Process::Create( my $ProcessObj,
                    ### win xp
                    "$firefoxpfad",
                     "$firefox $url",
                     0, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,  ".") || die ErrorRepor
+t();                

=END
=cut
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Problem:
1. $inhalt does not contain, the filled fields e.g. message with Hello . There is only 1 form on the side. Why are the fields not filled ?
2. Like to open firefox with the filled form. 3. I looked at HTML::Display module, but the simple example

display("<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1></body></html>");
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opens only with IE, I'd like to use firefox instead. If I try to open the real webside it starts loading with IE but then breaks.

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Re^2: modifyed http page in browser by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 10, 2009 at 10:09 UTC
You seem to have three problems that are not related: $inhalt does not contain, the filled fields e.g. message with Hello . There is only 1 form on the side. Why are the fields not filled ? This is because the `content` method is and stays the original content as returned from the webserver. You might or might not want HTML::FillInForm to populate the content with some more values. 2. Like to open firefox with the filled form. 3. I looked at HTML::Display module, but the simple example Like I wrote to somebody just yesterday in an email, that's likely just not possible under Windows unless you write some code that makes HTML::Display use temp files that have a `.html` extension. I'd like to use firefox instead. If I try to open the real webside it starts loading with IE but then breaks. That's a very common yet entirely unhelpful error diagnostic. Unless you're talking about porcelain or wood, you need to be more specific about what breaks and how. In the mail I sent yesterday to some person, I mentioned the `location` parameter which sets the `base` attribute of the HTML. Maybe the page tries to access some "local" resources like JavaScript scripts or images, which need the URL of the originating page. Which is what the `location` parameter should be set to.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: modifyed http page in browser
by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 10, 2009 at 10:09 UTC

You seem to have three problems that are not related:

$inhalt does not contain, the filled fields e.g. message with Hello . There is only 1 form on the side. Why are the fields not filled ?

This is because the content method is and stays the original content as returned from the webserver. You might or might not want HTML::FillInForm to populate the content with some more values.

2. Like to open firefox with the filled form.
3. I looked at HTML::Display module, but the simple example

Like I wrote to somebody just yesterday in an email, that's likely just not possible under Windows unless you write some code that makes HTML::Display use temp files that have a .html extension.

I'd like to use firefox instead. If I try to open the real webside it starts loading with IE but then breaks.

That's a very common yet entirely unhelpful error diagnostic. Unless you're talking about porcelain or wood, you need to be more specific about what breaks and how. In the mail I sent yesterday to some person, I mentioned the location parameter which sets the base attribute of the HTML. Maybe the page tries to access some "local" resources like JavaScript scripts or images, which need the URL of the originating page. Which is what the location parameter should be set to.

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