Listers, I am new to WWW::Mechanize, and have gotten it to mechanize alot of point and click stuff, so it's really great. But I cam across a page that refuses to yeild. I hope someone can help.
I hit a page on the FDIC website that allows me to download Bank Performance Reports, so-called "Call Reports." I can fill in the fields on the page, but the button that kicks off the file transfer is generated by an HTML tag like this: <input type="button" value="Export" onclick="FormSubmit(this.form);"> I have tried to click it three ways, by specifying the value, the number, and by just invoking $mech->submit() after selecting into the form. None of these worked: 1. $mech->click_button(value => 'Export') yeilds "Can't call method 'header' on undefined value." error. 2. $mech->click_button(number => 1) yeilds "Can't call method 'click' on undefined value." error. 3. $mech->submit() yeilds no error, but no content either. I poked around in the code, and it looks like HTML::Form is parsing the <input type="button" ...> tag as a type HTML::Form::IgnoreInput, which it does very effectively. Apparently, it only counts a <input type="submit" ...> tag as a button. Is this right? I'm no HTML expert, but my 1998 O'Reilly book on HTML, covering HTML 4.0 states that <input type="button" ...> is a synonym for <button ...>. I would think that HTML::Forms would allow 'click' on the two variants of button, not just <input type="submit" ...>. Am I missing something? My version of HTML::Forms has a version number of 1.44. I would greatly appreciate any guru-tude you can throw my way. Thanks. -- Daniel E. Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
