Re: WWW::Mechanize submission problem

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I do lots of scraping/automation with LWP/WWW::Mechanize, I found the following two are very useful:

Ethereal, so you can see what actually gets sent, and compare that with what the browser is sending.
"perl -d", yes, perl debugger, stepping through the code is really useful.

I am able to solve most of my problems using these two (except those with heavy javascript.)

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Re^2: WWW::Mechanize submission problem by john_oshea (Priest) on Feb 05, 2006 at 21:42 UTC
In a similar vein, the Tamper Data extension for Firefox is ridiculously handy for on-the-fly experimenting.	[reply]
Re^3: WWW::Mechanize submission problem by johnnywang (Priest) on Feb 06, 2006 at 08:40 UTC
Since we're talking about Firefox extensions, I use the WebDeveloper extension alot, it not only can show you the headers, but also can show such things as layout outlines, which is really useful when combined with HTML::TableExtract for screen scraping. You can download it from http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/	[reply]

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