Sorry to hit the list without a proper lurking period but this came on fast and I'm ducking flying materials and dodging around the muck.
We use an application (web based) that one page accepts two input fields and generates a hidden field that is carried along with each new form and page. To hide some of the more gruesome details I'd like to do this in the background so the returned value never shows up in the pages we see. (The application providers/developers seem reluctant to share how they are generating the returned value - I hate closed source software.) Well I figured WWW:Mechanize was the ticket but I am now up against the wall. I can't figure out how to take the returned page and get just that field's value. All the examples I've found of using Mech are looking for non-form information and though I could use those techniques I thought there has to be an easier way. Do I need to use CGI.pm (which I'm already using in the script) and if so how do I get the Mech results into a CGI instance? As you'll notice I'm kind of rambling as I'm not sure of the right terms for what I'm trying to accomplish. TIA, Rod -- "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."
