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how do I pass the paramenter to the search?

There are two possible approaches: The first is to read the HTML (+javascript) source of the page, understand what it's doing, and emulate the same in Perl.

The second is to get a copy of the HTTP request that your browser sends when you submit the form. This can be done with tools like wireshark, or with the Live HTTP Headers extension for Firefox.

Perl 6 - second systems done right

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Re^2: What parameters should I send?
by brian123 (Novice) on Dec 06, 2010 at 23:23 UTC
    I downloaded LiveHttpHeader as you said and ran it. Here is the result that I got but am unable to determine the exact line that was sent, could you help me out please.
    http://www.sanmateocountytaxcollector.org/SMCWPS/SearchParcels
 


POST /SMCWPS/SearchParcels HTTP/1.1

Host: www.sanmateocountytaxcollector.org

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko
+/20101028 CentOS/3.6-2.el5.centos Firefox/3.6.11

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.
+8

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 115

Connection: keep-alive

Referer: http://www.sanmateocountytaxcollector.org/SMCWPS/pages/secure
+Search.jsp

Cookie: JSESSIONID=0000hccwV8X_iqYt4J9YpcxAwwC:-1

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Content-Length: 181

parcelNumber=048022230&searchType=parcel&listFirst=S&bkList=SS&address
+TypeDsp=&addressType=&actionType=search&nextPage=.%2Fpages%2FparcelLi
+st.jsp&parcel1=048&parcel2=022&parcel3=230

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      parcelNumber=048022230&searchType=parcel&listFirst=S&bkList=SS&addressTypeDsp=&addressType=&actionType=search&nextPage=.%2Fpages%2FparcelList.jsp&parcel1=048&parcel2=022&parcel3=230

      That's the list of POST parameters and their values. If you replicate them, you should be fine.

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        Hello,

        I rewrote my Perl script as follow:
        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use LWP::UserAgent;
  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

  # Create a request

my $response = $ua->post('http://www.sanmateocountytaxcollector.org/SM
+CWPS/SearchParcels',{parcelNumber=>'048022230',searchType=>'parcel',l
+istFirst=>'S',bkList=>'SS',addressTypeDsp=>'',addressType=>'',actionT
+ype=>'search',nextPage=>'. 2Fpages 2FparcelList.jsp',parcel1=>'048',p
+arcel2=>'022',parcel3=>'230'});

my $content = $response->content;
print $content;

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        but it said 
        <h1>The page cannot be found</h1>
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name cha
+nged, or is temporarily unavailable.

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        when I ran it. What did I do wrong?
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