in reply to Mechanize:submit_form issue.

Since you seem to be using autocheck, you should write your program like this 
#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize 1.60;    #implies autocheck => 1

my $url = 'http://host:7777/fagcs_302_C600_sfosun05/domain/';

#my $url = 'http://host:7778/fagcs_320_C106_sfoaix04/domain/';
my $username = 'usrname';
my $password = 'pswd';

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );

if ( eval { $agent->get($url); 1 } ) {

    eval {
        $agent->submit_form(
            form_number => 0,
            fields      => {
                'j_username' => $username,
                'j_password' => $password,
            },
        );
        1;
    } or do {
        print "error :($@)\n";
        print "Couldn't submit form:"
          . $agent->status() . ":" . ":"
          . $agent->content() . "\n";
    };

}

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The error "500 Server closed connection without sending any data back" indicates a problem with the server. You should try to see if it works from a browser like Firefox (Firebug), and if it does, you should install livehttpheaders, and compare what firefox sends to what your program(mechanize) sends.

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Re^2: Mechanize:submit_form issue.
by perlcoding (Initiate) on Sep 16, 2009 at 15:52 UTC
    Hello folks, thanks for the replies.
    I wasn't able to test the suggestion you provided.
    I shall hope to try out your suggestions by EOD tommorow.

    My special thanks to the anonymous monk,that is something new to me.

    Will update you folks on the same.
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      Hey folks please help me.
      Its a critical task for me now.
      Now the script is throwing this error message
      "Error POSTing http://host:12501/adhoc_sfosun05/login/login.do"
      What should we understand when we get "Error POSTing". I can't seem to get around with this task.
      Seems like when script executes submit_form statement than it throws the above message.
      Please help me.

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        Hey anonymous,
        I have added the handler for 'request_send' and 'response_done',let me know if you need something else, here's the dump of that.

        GET http://blraix02:7779/adhoc_sfosun05/domain/
        Accept-Encoding: gzip
        User-Agent: WWW-Mechanize/1.60

        (no content)
        HTTP/1.1 209 Unknown code
        Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max_age=0, no-store
        Connection: close
        Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:10:50 GMT
        Pragma: no-cache
        Server: Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.0.2 Oracle-HTTP-Server
        Content-Length: 4306
        Content-Location: http://blraix02:12501/adhoc_sfosun05/login/login.jsp
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
        Expires: -1
        Client-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:10:50 GMT
        Client-Peer: 172.16.65.159:7779
        Client-Response-Num: 1
        Link: </adhoc_sfosun05/common/css/style.css>; /="/"; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css"
        Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=ac10419f30d5e6d7c0fd848c4e2ab559f572b24e38a5.e34Pc30SaxqPb40La30Sa30TaxuTe6fznA5Pp7ftolbGmkTy; path=/adhoc_sfosun05
        Title: Welcome to TECH Solutions

        \n\n\n\n
        <html>
        <head>
        <title>Welcome to TECH Solutions</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/adhoc_sfosun05/common/css/style.css" type="text/css" />
        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/adhoc_sfosun05/common/js/Main.js"></script>
        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/adhoc_sfosun05/common/js/App.js"></script>
        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/adh...
        (+ 3794 more bytes not shown)
        POST http://blraix02:12501/adhoc_sfosun05/login/login.do
        Accept-Encoding: gzip
        Referer: http://blraix02:7779/adhoc_sfosun05/domain/
        User-Agent: WWW-Mechanize/1.60
        Content-Length: 23
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        Cookie: JSESSIONID=ac10419f30d5e6d7c0fd848c4e2ab559f572b24e38a5.e34Pc30SaxqPb40La30Sa30TaxuTe6fznA5Pp7ftolbGmkTy
        Cookie2: $Version="1"

        j_username=&j_password=
        500 Server closed connection without sending any data back
        Content-Type: text/plain
        Client-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:10:51 GMT
        Client-Warning: Internal response

        500 Server closed connection without sending any data back\n

        And this error is thrown by the script
        'Error POSTing http://blraix02:12501/adhoc_sfosun05/login/login.do: Server closed connection without sending any data back at testwrk.pl line'

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