Re: Authentication with WWW::Mechanize

[CountZero]

You may have noticed that the log-in page has some JavaScript running:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
if (window!= top)
top.location.href=location.href;
var  form;
function init(){
  form = document.li;
  if (form.USERID.value == "") form.USERID.focus();
}
var scount = 0; 
function submitForm(){
     scount++;
     if (scount==1) form.submit(); 
     else return false;
}   
// -->
</SCRIPT>

and that clicking the submit button actually runs this code rather than do the usual CGI-submit. I'm not into JavaScript, but perhaps it can explain WWW::Mechanize not working.

[shenme]

All that the code in submitForm() is trying to do is prevent double-submits. It does the form.submit() only once, the first time called. (Returning false from an onsubmit handler says don't do a submit - they coulda structured this as just returning true or false, I think)