Dear All, I am very new to LWP but need it to extract text from some website. I am reading "Perl & LWP" by Sean Burke.
What I am trying to do is very similar to the ABEBooks.com example in Burke (p.74): use the POST method to submit some parameters to a form and save the response to a local file. As done in the example, I first got the name-value pairs of the form. The problem I have is that I don't know how to submit the form. In the webpage, there are two buttons "Search" and "Clear Form", but I can't find the pair of name and value for submission. In the source code, the two buttons are represented by two images: "search_gray.gif" and "clearform_gray.gif", below is the part of the source code I guess is relavent. <SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="LN_page_files/form_js_utils.v1.js" type=text/javascript> </SCRIPT> <INPUT name=formSubmit type=hidden> <INPUT name=imageSubmit type=hidden> <A href="http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/form/academic/" onclick="submitForm(document.forms[0],'Search');return false;"><IMG alt=Search border=0 height=20 src="LN_page_files/search_gray.gif" width=58></A> <A href="http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/form/academic/" onclick="submitForm(document.forms[0],'Clear Form');return false;"><IMG alt="Clear Form" border=0 height=19 src="LN_page_files/clearform_gray.gif" width=82></A> </P></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <DIV align=center> <CENTER> Could anyone please tell me how to put the submission in my perl codes? Thank a lot! Wendy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com