RE: frame question- lwp/mechanize

[bruce]

there seems to be an issue with this...

when i "grab" the frame i'm interested in, and i submit the form, how do i
go about getting the updated content/html from the parent frame??

here's a section of code that i'm using...

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use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $b = WWW::Mechanize->new();

   $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
   $ua->timeout(30);
   $ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows95)" .
$ua->agent);

   my $cstr;


#
# get the top level university class site
#
  my $base_url = "http://ntweb8.ais.msu.edu/ScheduleBook/Schedule.asp";;

   my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $base_url;

   $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

   my $res = $ua->request($req);
   my $q1c = $res->content;
   print $q1c;

           # go ahead and get the dept page..
           # use www::machanize

           my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();


           $agent->get($base_url);
           $agent->follow_link(text=>'selection.asp');

            my $_form = $agent->form_name('thisform');
           if (!$_form) {
               warn "Nothing came back";
               exit;
           }

           $agent->field('Semester' => "US041042summer sem 2004");
           $agent->field('Subject' => "EGR");
           $agent->field('Instructor' => "ANY");
           $agent->field('StartTime' => "0600");
           $agent->field('EndTime' => "2350");
           $agent->tick('Monday');
           $agent->tick('Tuesday');
           $agent->tick('Wednsday');
           $agent->tick('Thursday');
           $agent->tick('Friday');
           $agent->tick('OpenCourses', "A");
           $agent->field('On Campus');
           $agent->field('Off Campus');
           $agent->field('Online Courses');
           $agent->field('Study Abroad');
           $agent->submit();

print "-- ".$agent->content(). "\n";
die

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i've tried a variety of possible approaches to the follow_form()... with no
success..

so i'm inclined to believe there's something i'm missing...

thanks

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: Gedanken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:34 AM
To: bruce
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: frame question- lwp/mechanize


On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, bruce wrote:

there may be a smarter way to do it, but 'regular' mech works just fine
with frames.  after you do a 'get' to grab the frameset, you can just do
'get's to grab the frame you want.

like

$agent->get("someframeset.html");
$agent->get("leftNav.html")

theres no need to even think of them as frames.

 hey...

 can www::mechanize be used to deal with frame sites.. or does one have to
 use lwp::useragent::framesready...??

 is there a sample of code that someone could point me to... didn't really
 find anything on google that answered this....

 basically, i want to get a given frame (foo), submit a form on the frame
 (foo), and read the results that are displayed in another frame (dog).

 thanks...

 -bruce



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gedanken