HDSS is back up and running but I am still getting the error. How I see it is that request just requests a page, its not sending the post to anything. The reason I think this is because when I go to the page and pick data and click the submit button, the page moves on. But if request works the way I think it does then when you go to that url you get an error page. Is this wrong?

UPDATE: Looking at WWW::Mechanize it seems like it may work well. I tried to install the module via CPAN shell but it is stuck on the cookie.t test. Any ideas how to get past it?