bcdeery,

When I have had to reverse engineer JavaScript code I use the 'view source' option of my browser (or simply retrieve the file if its an include file) and port the code over to Perl. However, from having looked at this page, all the submitTTime() function (which is called when you click 'Calculate') does is sets a hidden form value and then submit the form. If you use WWW::Mechanize you can set the form value and submit the form.

The JavaScript line:

document.frmSvcCalc.hdnAction.value = "Calculate";

Sets the value of hdnAction to "Calculate".
To use WWW::Mechanize to do this try:

$mech->field( "hdnAction", "Calculate" );

before submitting the form.
Sadly I can not test this right now (no Perl on desktop machine, no internet access on our development boxes), let me know if you have any problems.

Hope this helps.

Martin

In reply to Re: Mechanize and javascript (yes, another) by marto
in thread Mechanize and javascript (yes, another) by bcdeery

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