[Chicago-talk] WWW::Mechanize
Andy Lester
andy at petdance.com
Fri Apr 2 17:32:30 CST 2004
> Does this get me to the page after the form submit or
> do I still need to press submit?
>
> $m->submit_form(
> form_number => 1,
> fields => {
> user_id => "user",
> password => "pw",
> },
> );
submit_form() actually does the submit.
> Also when I am at a page on a web site
> are there commands in mechanize to show me:
You can call $mech->forms() to get a list of the forms. Mech also
installs (optionally) a tool called mech-dump that shows you all the
forms and fields on the page.
$ mech-dump http://use.perl.org/
GET http://use.perl.org/search.pl
query=
<NONAME>= Go (submit)
GET http://search.cpan.org/search
mode=module (option) [*module/Module|dist/Distribution|author/Author|doc/Documentation]
query=
<NONAME>=Search (submit)
POST http://use.perl.org/users.pl
unickname=
returnto=/ (hidden)
op=userlogin (hidden)
upasswd= (password)
login_temp=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|yes/Public Terminal]
userlogin=Log in (submit)
GET http://use.perl.org/pollBooth.pl
qid=17 (hidden)
section=index (hidden)
aid=<UNDEF> (radio) [1/Web development|2/System administration|3/End-user application development|4/Bioinformatics|5/Data processing|6/More than one of the above|7/Something else]
<NONAME>=Vote (submit)
It also has flags for all the images and links, too.
xoa
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