Why can't Perl's WWW::Machanize find the form by field names?
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perl
|www-mechanize
#!/usr/bin/perl
use WWW::Mechanize;
use Compress::Zlib;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $username = ""; #fill in username here
my $keyword = ""; #fill in password here
my $mobile = $ARGV[0];
my $text = $ARGV[1];
$deb = 1;
print length($text)."\n" if($deb);
$text = $text."\n\n\n\n\n" if(length($text) < 135);
$mech->get("http://wwwl.way2sms.com/content/index.html");
unless($mech->success())
{
exit;
}
$dest = $mech->response->content;
print "Fetching...\n" if($deb);
if($mech->response->header("Content-Encoding") eq "gzip")
{
$dest = Compress::Zlib::memGunzip($dest);
$mech->update_html($dest);
}
$dest =~ s/<form name="loginForm"/<form action='..\/auth.cl' name="loginForm"/g;
$mech->update_html($dest);
$mech->form_with_fields(("username","password"));
$mech->field("username",$username);
$mech->field("password",$keyword);
print "Loggin...\n" if($deb);
$mech->submit_form();
$dest= $mech->response->content;
if($mech->response->header("Content-Encoding") eq "gzip")
{
$dest = Compress::Zlib::memGunzip($dest);
$mech->update_html($dest);
}
$mech->get("http://wwwl.way2sms.com//jsp/InstantSMS.jsp?val=0");
$dest= $mech->response->content;
if($mech->response->header("Content-Encoding") eq "gzip")
{
$dest = Compress::Zlib::memGunzip($dest);
$mech->update_html($dest);
}
print "Sending ... \n" if($deb);
$mech->form_with_fields(("MobNo","textArea"));
$mech->field("MobNo",$mobile);
$mech->field("textArea",$text);
$mech->submit_form();
if($mech->success())
{
print "Done \n" if($deb);
}
else
{
print "Failed \n" if($deb);
exit;
}
$dest = $mech->response->content;
if($mech->response->header("Content-Encoding") eq "gzip")
{
$dest = Compress::Zlib::memGunzip($dest);
#print $dest if($deb);
}
if($dest =~ m/successfully/sig)
{
print "Message sent successfully" if($deb);
}
exit;
When run this code halts with an error saying:
There is no form with the requested fields at ./sms.pl line 65
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1348.
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