WWW Mechanize submit

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

I am unable to login to my torrentz.com account using:

    $Torrentz_Interface->submit_form(
        form_number => 1,
        fields      => {
            user       => $username,
            pass       => $password,
        }
    );
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They have a unique form:

<form action="/profile" method="post" class="profile">
<fieldset>
<legend>User Login</legend>
<label for="luser">Username</label>

<input name="user" id="luser" class="i" type="text">
<label for="lpass">Password</label>
<input name="pass" id="lpass" class="i" type="password">
<div class="s"><input name="go" value="Login" type="submit"></div>
</fieldset>
</form>
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Mech-Dump tells me:

torrentz$ mech-dump http://www.torrentz.com/profile
POST http://www.torrentz.com/profile
  user=                          (text)
  pass=                          (password)
  go=Login                       (submit)
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I am unsure on how to "go=Login" using submit_form(). I have tried various ways. So I come to you fellow monks, and hope that you can assist me.

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Re: WWW Mechanize submit_form issue by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 14, 2010 at 13:47 UTC
Of all the various ways you tried, what were they and how did they fail for you? Look at the documentation of WWW::Mechanize, especially at the `->click_button()` function.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: WWW Mechanize submit_form issue by Gangabass (Vicar) on Aug 15, 2010 at 04:18 UTC
Try: `$Torrentz_Interface->submit_form( form_number => 1, fields => { user => $username, pass => $password, }, button => "go" );` [download] If this does not help -- it may be JavaScript cookies (or cookies which you get downloading some small file: css or image).	[reply] [d/l]