but I strongly believe it is related to the www::mechanize library

I can tell you that it is not

Whatever the issue is, relative path.... it is a problem with your code and/or the way you packed your program

Hi fixon,
it does not execute, i.e does not create the excel file

How are you using pp(PAR Packager) to make your executable? Using pp like so works for me:

pp -o perlscript.exe perlscript.pl
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I did exactly that for the pp to create the .exe package

Here is my code, please take a quick look if you see anything that might be causing the problem when creating the .exe. Thank you very much

use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use WWW::Mechanize;

# Create a new instance of Mechanize
my $bot = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$bot->agent_alias( 'Windows Mozilla' );

# Connect to the login page
my $response = $bot->get( 'https://anyURLwithCredentials.com' );

# Get the login form. You might need to change the number.
$bot->form_number(3);

# Enter the login credentials.
$bot->field( username => 'username' );
$bot->field( password => 'password' );
$response = $bot->click();




my $outfile = "out.txt";
open(OUTFILE, ">$outfile");
print OUTFILE  $response->decoded_content;
close(OUTFILE);

open(FILE,$outfile);
my @releasesAU;
my @releasesAU3G;


while (<FILE>) {
    chomp;
    my $lineDATA = $_;
        if(index($lineDATA, "H") != -1){

            if( $lineDATA =~ /">([_+\w]*)<\/a>/){
                print $1, "\n";
                push(@releasesAU3G,$1);
            }
        }
        
        if(index($lineDATA, "H+") != -1){
            
            if( $lineDATA =~ /">([_+\w]*)<\/a>/){
                print $1, "\n";
                push(@releasesAU,$1);
            }
        }    
}
close(FILE);

my $row = 0;
my $col=0;
my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new("test.xls");
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();
$worksheet->write($row,  $col, "Releases H");
$worksheet->write($row,  $col+1, "Releases H+");
$row=2;

foreach my $SOP (@releasesAU){
    $worksheet->write($row,   $col, $SOP);
    $row = $row+1;
}
$row =2;

foreach my $SOP (@releasesAU3G){
    $worksheet->write($row,   $col+1, $SOP);
    $row = $row+1;
}    

$workbook->close();
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Have you inspected whether LWP::Protocol::https (and other dynamically loaded prerequisites of your script) are included in the generated executable?

I have tried adding what you suggested use LWP::Protocol::https to my code, but nothing has changed How can I verify allthe automatically generated dependencies for my code? Maybe the problem is only that... thank you

Hello again monks!

I debugged as much as I could and found that the problem is my website type I believe. Because if I use www.google.com as my URL, my executable takes the information needed and saves it in the .txt file

Therefore do any of you have an idea why the website type makes a difference when my script is compressed to an .exe? (if i compress the script with the url=www.google.com, it works fine<\p>

Have you checked with URLs that need HTTPS?

Hello Corion, Yes I have noticed that the problem is only related to sites that have authentification. So for example hotmail.com (https://hotmail.com) will not work either. What I can't understand is that the script works fine whichever site I choose to parse.

But when I package the script it only works with none secured websites. For example www.google.com will get parsed by the packaged script (.exe) I debugged and the process stops exactly when I call the https site i.e. at line:

# Connect to the login page
my $response = $bot->get( 'https://anyURLwithCredentials.com' );
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