Gangabass has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, Monks

It's very strange but i can't get page HTML with Win32::IE::Mechanize ($ie->content).

I'm filling login form and see data i need in IE but after saving $ie->content to the file i see only login form again.

Can you show me some directions to fix this strange situation?

P. S. Trying Win32::IEAutomation now...

Update: It works for Win32::IEAutomation...

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Re: [Win32::IE::Mechanize] Page content
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 14, 2010 at 08:13 UTC
    Usually in such situations you provide code which demonstrates the problem :) but filling out a form and saving the page doesn't usually save the stuff you typed, not unless the DOM was modified (the page was modified).
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      OK but the code is really simple:

      use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::IE::Mechanize;
my $ie = Win32::IE::Mechanize->new( visible => 1 );

$ie->get("http://www.valuationpartners.com/vendors");

$ie->form_name("ctl00");
$ie->set_fields(

    txtUserID => 'user_id',
    txtPassword => 'password',
);

my $btn_name = "btnLogin";

$ie->click( $btn_name );

my $html = $ie->content;

save_html($html);

sub save_html {
    
    my ($html) = @_;
    
    open my $out_fh, ">", "Order.htm" or die $!;
    binmode $out_fh, ":utf8";
    
    print $out_fh $html;
    
    close $out_fh;
}

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[d/l]
        You're not error checking. Probably click never succeeds, so you're still on the login page.
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