So I understand Mechanize doen't really understand javascript. But on other posts I see that people can "reverse engineer" it so they can post a form. How? My program has mechanize get the url: "http://www.dhl-usa.com/TransitTimes/USTTimeStart.asp?nav=TransitTimes" I'm trying to automate the retrival of the transit days on the next page (After inputing origin and destination zips). This should be a simple task except for the fact that the "Calculate" button is javascript. I tried going to the page I needed and then just replacing the origin and destination zip codes in the url, but then the table that shows up is wrong-- it just gives the same table no matter how long the shipment would really take. I am very new to the Perl community and appreciate all or any help.

In reply to Mechanize and javascript (yes, another) by bcdeery

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