I have need of writing a perl program to interact with an html form that includes radio buttons. Unfortunately, I do not have control over the form, and those who wrote it forgot to close the form with a "/form" tag within their html code. (So the form is started with the proper "form" tag, but is never ended with the "/form" tag.)

Following the code in the HTTP::Request::Form documentation, I tried doing something like this:


use URI::URL;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use HTTP::Request::Form;
use HTML::TreeBuilder 3.0;
use Data::Dumper;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $url = 'http://formhost/form.cgi';
my $req = $ua->request(GET $url);
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
$tree->parse($req->content);
$tree->eof();

my @forms = $tree->find_by_tag_name('form');
die "No forms found in $url\n" unless @forms;
print Dumper @forms;
exit 0;


This code always dies because nothing shows up in the @forms array due (I think) to the fact that find_by_tag_name('form') is unable to find the closing tag.

How can I interact with the radio buttons? Can I just use POST in HTTP::Request::Common in some way? Or, is there some other function within HTML::TreeBuilder that I can use?

Thanks,

--Mike

In reply to LWP and improper by mbr

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