I'm attempting to automate a form submission that uses a series of
<input type=3Dimage ...> tags, but I can't seem to figure out what I
need to post back to the server. If I watch the POST request using
LiveHTTPHeaders, I see the x & y coordinates being posted (as expected
from the spec), but I'm not sure how the event/form handler on the
server interprets it, nor how I would simulate that behavior using
LWP.

Has anyone dealt with this before? I'm at a loss after Googling and
reading up on how the ASP.NET postback handler works it's magic on
these types of forms, so any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Christopher Hart wrote:

> I'm attempting to automate a form submission that uses a series of
> <input type=image ...> tags, but I can't seem to figure out what I
> need to post back to the server.


Use WWW::Mechanize, which wraps LWP, and use the submit() method.

xoxo,
Andy


--
Andy Lester => andy [at] petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll try that. I still feel like I'm
missing something, though - what actually happens (from the
perspective of the request / POST) to "tell" the server what button
was clicked? I've checked out the click() and click_button() code
from WWW::Mechanize and it was obvious to me what was going on under
the covers.

Any input is appreciated,
Chris

On 12/21/05, Andy Lester <andy [at] petdance.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Christopher Hart wrote:
>
> > I'm attempting to automate a form submission that uses a series of
> > <input type=3Dimage ...> tags, but I can't seem to figure out what I
> > need to post back to the server.
>
>
> Use WWW::Mechanize, which wraps LWP, and use the submit() method.
>
> xoxo,
> Andy
>
>
> --
> Andy Lester =3D> andy [at] petdance.com =3D> www.petdance.com =3D> AIM:petdanc=
e
>
>
>

Wow, I must've been in a fog the last day and a half. The browser
needs to send the x & y coordinates of the image that was clicked,
which includes the name/index of the control.

Nevermind, thanks!

<c>

On 12/22/05, Christopher Hart <hartct [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion - I'll try that. I still feel like I'm
> missing something, though - what actually happens (from the
> perspective of the request / POST) to "tell" the server what button
> was clicked? I've checked out the click() and click_button() code
> from WWW::Mechanize and it was obvious to me what was going on under
> the covers.
>
> Any input is appreciated,
> Chris
>
> On 12/21/05, Andy Lester <andy [at] petdance.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Christopher Hart wrote:
> >
> > > I'm attempting to automate a form submission that uses a series of
> > > <input type=3Dimage ...> tags, but I can't seem to figure out what I
> > > need to post back to the server.
> >
> >
> > Use WWW::Mechanize, which wraps LWP, and use the submit() method.
> >
> > xoxo,
> > Andy
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andy Lester =3D> andy [at] petdance.com =3D> www.petdance.com =3D> AIM:petda=
nce
> >
> >
> >
>