Before calling $mech->submit_form it might be helpful to do things like:
$mech->dump_text;
$mech->dump_forms;
$mech->dump_headers;
to see whether $mech really is getting the page you think it is.
Andrew
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Mike <ekimduna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone, I'm trying to submit a form with WWW::Mechanize to post a new
> thread on a forum from the command line. The forum also requires an image to
> be uploaded with it. Anyway...here is my snippet:
>
> $mech->submit_form(
> form_name => 'post',
> fields => { body => $text, file => $file_location },
> button => 'post'
> );
>
> When I run the code, I'm getting this error:
>
> Uncaught exception from user code:
> There is no form named "post" at
> /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1938.
>
> But the HTML source code on the site shows that the form name IS indeed
> "post":
>
> <form name="post" onsubmit="return dopost(this);"
> enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/post.php" method="post">
>
> Can anyone tell me why I'm receiving this error?
>
> Thanks.
>
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