have a look at the HTTP::Request module.
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$request = HTTP::Request->new(POST => "$url", \%post_params); #i think is
the symntax
$response = $ua->request($request);
hth
t0by
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Brammer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: simple submission example
>
> Let me expand on this question a little bit. What if the method of that
> form is POST? Formulating the URL like below then won't work, right? How
> does one overcome that problem?
>
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris
> Devers
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:48 PM
> To: Ted Sung
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: simple submission example
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Ted Sung wrote:
>
> > I want to be able programmatically to go to a web site, enter a value
> > in one of the text boxes provided and hit submit and then have the
> > returned page to parse through. What is the simplest way to do this?
>
> Assuming you're talking about a pre-existing page somewhere out on the web
> already, go to that page & view the html source. Most likely there will be
> a form structure, a submission method (put or get) and one or more input
> elements.
>
> In the simplest case, if the form issues a GET request for just one field,
> then it's constructing a http request something like this:
>
> GET http://site.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?text=Your%20text
>
> So, all you have to do is copy that -- figure out what you want the input
> text to be and GET it.
>
> #!/bin/perl
> # getsitepage.pl
> use strict;
> use LWP::Simple;
>
> my $text = $ARGV[0];
> my $url = "http://site.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?text=$text";;
>
> print (get $url);
>
> And then run it as, for example:
>
> c:\perl\> perl getsitepage.pl "your text"
>
> ...and it will then dump out the resulting page.
>
> If you need to programmatically analyze both the submission page and the
> result page, the work is a little bit harder, but still it's not so bad,
> and the code above gives you the core idea.
>
> Check out _Web Client Programming with Perl_, available online for free at
> <http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/>.
>
> Chapter five begins the discussion of what you're trying to do.
> <http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch05.html>
>
> The next chapter gives more complex examples, including a program that
> periodically checks on the status of a package with FedEx:
> <http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch06.html>
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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