Hi,
I am working on generating a report for a customer. I can get this report from a web page i can access. First i will need to fill a form with my user name, password and choose a server from a drop down list, and log in. Second i need to click a link for the report section. Third a need to fill a form to create the report.

Here is what i wrote so far: 

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

my $url = 'http://X.X.X.X/Console/login/login.aspx';

$mech->get( $url );

$mech->submit_form( form_number => 1, fields =>{ 'ctl00$ctl00$cphVeriC
+entre$cphLogin$txtUser' => 'someone', 'ctl00$ctl00$cphVeriCentre$cphL
+ogin$txtPW' => '12345', 'ctl00$ctl00$cphVeriCentre$cphLogin$ddlServer
+s' => 'Live', button => 'Sign-In' }, ); die unless ($mech->success);

$mech->dump_forms();

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I dont understand why, but, after this i look at the what dump outputs and i see the code for the first login page, while i belive i should have reached the next page after my successful login.

Could there be something with a cookie that can effect me and the login attempt?

Anythings else i am doing wrong? Appreciate you help, Yaniv

In reply to Cant get www:Mechanize to work by yantar

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