I have been trying to learn LWP Post, by going through an examples on the web. Perl & LWP. I try to search AbeBooks for the book "Codex Seraphinianus" from the main page (AbeBooks). Below is the code that I am using. But this just sends me back the content of the search page not the result page. Anyone knows what the problems are? Can someone show me a real working code of LWP post?
Here is the code that I am using: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP; my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $response = $browser->post('http://www.abebooks.com', ["sts" => "t", "an" => "", "tn" => "Codex Seraphinianus", "kn" => "", "isbn" => "", ] ); die "Error: ", $response->status_line, "\n" unless $response->is_success; my $out_file = "result_seraph.html"; # where to save it open(OUT, ">$out_file") || die "Can't write-open $out_file: $!"; binmode(OUT); print OUT $response->content; close(OUT); print "Bytes saved: ", -s $out_file, " in $out_file\n"; Below are the related html code from abebooks.com. <form action="/servlet/SearchResults" method="post" name="homepageSearch"> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td class="attributeHeader" align="right">Author:</td> <td width="74%" align="left"> <input type="hidden" name="sts" value="t" /> <input type="text" name="an" size="40" tabindex="10" title="Author Field: Enter the name of the author you are searching for here"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="attributeHeader" align="right">Title:</td> <td align="left"><input type="text" name="tn" size="40" tabindex="11" title="Title Field: Enter the title of the book you are searching for here"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="attributeHeader" align="right">Keyword:</td> <td align="left"><input type="text" name="kn" size="40" tabindex="12" title="Keyword Field: Enter keywords related to the book you are searching for here (eg. Horror, Spanish Language)"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="attributeHeader" align="right"><span class="tip"><a href="/docs/what-is-an-isbn/" onclick="window.open(this.href,'ISBN','height=400,width=380,location=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false">what's this?</a></span> ISBN:</td> <td align="left"><input type="text" name="isbn" size="40" tabindex="13" title="ISBN Field: Enter the ISBN of the book you are searching for here"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td class="button" align="left"> <input type="image" src="/images/Shared/findBook-large.gif" alt="FIND BOOK" tabindex="14" > <a href="/servlet/SearchEntry" tabindex="15" title="More Search Options">More Search Options</a> </td> </tr> </table></form>