Question about WWW::Mechanize

[redss]

Hi Monks,

I want to submit a form, and the following works:

use WWW::Mechanize;
$mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get('http://www.abc.com/index.htm' );
$resp =  $mech->submit();

However, I want to embed the html (containing the form) in my perl script rather than retrieving it using $mech->get.

How can I do that?

My Mechanize.pm is version .72 which doesn't have an update_html() method, which sounds like one way to do it.

[davidrw]

WWW::Mechanize is up to version 1.34 ... (if you really can't upgrade for whatever reason, you can try to subclass it yourself to add update() taken from the source of a newer version)

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get('.');  # to make it internall create request/response objec
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$mech->update_html($html);
# then use normally

WWW::Mechanize::Cached may be of interest as well

[gam3]

The very simplest way is to change the url:

use WWW::Mechanize;
$mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get('file://localhost/tmp/bob.html');
$resp = $mech->submit();

Here the form is read from /tmp/bob.html.

[Gangabass]

Install new version of WWW::Mechanize?

Or look into WWW::Mechanize (version 1.34) sources how update_html() implemented...