@neverminda - Obviously I'm going to do more than just log on to my blogger account.

@naikonta - I was thinking about using the API, and I might have to if I don't solve this problem. Thanks for your input.

@moritz - That url string is taken from an iframe. If you just use $mech->get('http://www.blogger.com/'); you will find that google has hidden the login form in an iframe. I just took the url from that login and put it into a scalar variable.

The redirect is a javascript redirect. This is what it looks like (and where I've gotten stuck). 
<html>
  <head>
  <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  function doRedirect(url) {
    open(url, "_top");
  }
  -->
  </script>
  <script language="JavaScript1.4" type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  function doRedirect(url) {
    try {
      open(url, "_top");
    } catch (xcp) {
      insertContinueLink();
    }
  }
  -->
  </script>
  <script language="EcmaScript" type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  function doRedirect(url) {
    try {
      open(url, "_top");
    } catch (xcp) {
      insertContinueLink();
    }
  }
  -->
  </script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  <!--
    var firsttime = "firsttime";
    var goback = "goback";
    var gofwd = "gofwd";

    function redirect() {

      var url = 'https:\x2F\x2Fwww.google.com\x2Faccounts\x2FCheckCook
+ie?service=blogger&chtml=LoginDoneHtml';
      var state = document.dummyform.dummyfield.value;
      var lastUrl = document.dummyform.dummyfield2.value;

      if ((state == firsttime) || (url != lastUrl)) {
        // First time visit or passive login
        document.dummyform.dummyfield.value = goback;
        document.dummyform.dummyfield.defaultvalue = goback;
        document.dummyform.dummyfield2.value = url;
        document.dummyform.dummyfield2.defaultvalue = url;
        doRedirect(url);
      } else if (state == goback) {
        // Remember that we should go forward next time and go backwar
+d.
        document.dummyform.dummyfield.value = gofwd;
        document.dummyform.dummyfield.defaultvalue = gofwd;
        history.back();
      } else if (state == gofwd) {
        // Remember that we should go backward next time and go forwar
+d.
        document.dummyform.dummyfield.value = goback;
        document.dummyform.dummyfield.defaultvalue = goback;
        history.forward();
      }
    }

    // Tells the user we are waiting for the page to redirect
    function insertLoadingMessage() { 
      document.getElementById("loadingDiv").style.visibility = "visibl
+e";
    }

    function insertContinueLink() {
      document.getElementById("loadingDiv").style.visibility = "hidden
+";
      document.getElementById("clickToContinue").style.visibility = "v
+isible";
    } 
    -->
  </script>
  <style type="text/css"><!--
    body {
          color:white; 
          background:#F5EDE3; 
      font-size: 12; 
      font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
    }
    #loadingDiv {
          float:left;
      background:#826C55;
      margin:10px 0 0 10px;
    }
    a { 
          color: white; 
    }
    --></style>
  <script type="text/javascript"><!--
      if (document.referrer.indexOf('nui=8') >= 0) {
    document.write('<style type="text/css">');
    document.write('#body { background: #036 }');
    document.write('#body #loadingDiv { background: none }');
    document.write('</style>');
  }
  // -->
  </script>
  </head>
  <body onload="insertLoadingMessage();redirect();" id="body"
        dir="ltr"
        onpageshow="if (event.persisted) redirect();">
  <div id="loadingDiv" 
         style="visibility:hidden;">
  Loading...
  </div>
  <div style="visibility:hidden;" id="clickToContinue">
  <a target="_top" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/CheckCookie?s
+ervice=blogger&chtml=LoginDoneHtml">Click here to continue</a>
  </div>
 <form name="dummyform" action="" >
  <input name="dummyfield" value="firsttime" style="visibility:hidden"
+ />
  <input name="dummyfield2" value="" style="visibility:hidden" />
 </form>
  <noscript>
    Please
  <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/CheckCookie?service=blogger
+&chtml=LoginDoneHtml" target="_top">click here to continue</a>.
  </noscript>
  </body>
</html>

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I've tried to do a $mech->follow_link( text => 'click here to continue'); but that just takes you in a circle.

I also tried using a regular expression to take out "https:\x2F\x2Fwww.google.com\x2Faccounts\x2FCheckCook +ie?service=blogger&chtml=LoginDoneHtml" (the redirect url), but I get a "500 Can't connect to :443 (Bad hostname '')" error.

In reply to Re: WWW::Mechanize login problems by lv211
in thread WWW::Mechanize login problems by lv211

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