Hi!
I am using WWW::Mechanize to automate a transaction. At one step I
must submit the contents of a form whose submit button has an unusual
name. It's something like
0 HTML::Form::SubmitInput=HASH(0x89f5844)
'/' => '/'
'name' => 'reviewed'
'type' => 'submit'
'value' => 'Been there done that'
'value_name' => ''
When I perform this transaction manually, clicking on this button
results in a persistent change in the information that is stored in
the server under my account, but when it is done through
WWW::Mechanize, no change occurs, even though the is_success() method
returns true. (This form has only one submit button; the other input
elements in this form are all hidden fields.)
I have tried various ways of submitting the form, but they are all
variants of:
die "Update failed\n"
unless $m->submit_form( form_number => 3 )->is_success;
where $m is the WWW::Mechanize object.
I noticed that request for the manual submission included the fragment
'reviewed=Been+there+done+that', which gave me the idea of doing this
my $val = 'Been there done that';
die "Update failed\n"
unless $m->submit_form( form_number => 3,
fields => { reviewed => $val }
)->is_success;
but it made no difference. If I step through the code with the
debugger I see that, despite specifying the "reviewed" field in the
call to submit_form, the request generated by WWW::Mechanize does not
include the 'reviewed=Been+there+done+that' substring, or anything
like it.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!
kj
