From: Harry <groupalias@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T17:23:01+09:00
Subject: How to programatically submit a form that uses document.forms[0].submit()

Hi there:

have been trying to use Mechanize to submit a form and scrape the
resulting page - but realized after looking at the form page that it
uses Javascript to perform the form submission :-/

The page with the form is built such that

<form METHOD="POST" ACTION="somepage.asp?param1=value1"
onSubmit="return checkSelections()">

The Javascript function checkSelections in turn then calls
document.forms[0].submit();

I understand Mechanize doesn't include a JavaScript engine and I don't
want to choose a platform-specific route, i.e. control Windows IE.

Has anyone experienced similar difficulties?

Thanks, Harry.