Question

Can I get some help on how to submit a POST with the necessary variables using WWW::Mechanize::Firefox? I’ve installed all the perl modules, and the firefox plugin and tested such that I can connect to a give host and get responses… my questions is how to submit a POST request. On the documentation Corion says he may never implement. This seems odd, I’m hoping I can use the inherited nature from Mechanize, but can’t find any examples. A simple example would help me tremendously.

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new();
$mech->allow( javascript =>1);                  # enable javascript

# http
$mech->get("http://www.example.com");
my $c = $mech->content;

Is there a mech->post() option I am simply missing?

many thanks in advance.

R

Answer 1

get a page, fill out a form, submit the form

if you’re going to be skipping the above steps by using post, you don’t need mechanize firefox