I've been trying to better understand how Mechanize works (see this link) and the next obstacle I've encountered is submitting forms with hidden fields. The following code fails, and I suspect it has something to do with the three fields listed that are hidden in the form. 
use warnings;
use strict;

use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

my $id = '14632';

my $url = "http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?".
          "fuseaction=user.viewfriends&".
          "friendID=" . $id;

$mech->get( $url );

my $page = 2;

my ($viewstate) = $mech->content =~ m/name="__VIEWSTATE".+value="([^"]
++)"/io;

my $form = $mech->form_name('aspnetForm');
$form->value('__EVENTTARGET' => 'ctl00$cpMain$pagerTop');
$form->value('__EVENTARGUMENT' => $page);
$form->value('__VIEWSTATE' => $viewstate);
$mech->submit();

print $mech->content;

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If someone has time, would you mind telling me what I'm doing wrong or missing?

Thanks

In reply to How to submit hidden forms by Anonymous Monk

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