in reply to Perl Mechanize - Can't call method value

Here's what you're trying to attack: <form name="loginform" action="" method="post">

Your comment in your child node might mean that you literally tried to use form_name() which I don't believe would work even if you were dealing with pure html, rather than all the [@!_#S* expurgated] js actually found.

You may want to try Super Search using variants of this.