| To: | bug-www-mechanize [...] rt.cpan.org |
| Subject: | Fw: not sure whether a convenience method for file upload is needed in WWW-Mechanize |
| From: | ALester [...] flr.follett.com |
| Date: | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:42:27 -0600 |
Mike O'Regan/flr wrote on 08/12/2003 03:37:58 PM:
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> If $agent is my WWW::Mechanize and "myname" is an input tag of type
> "file" then all you need to do to upload is:
>
> $agent->field( 'myname', 'c:\autoexec.bat' );
> $agent->click();
>
> The field acts like text field, accepting the name of the file to
> upload. For basic upload capability, a helper isn't needed. The
> relevant docs are:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/author/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.69/lib/HTML/Form.pm
Show quoted text> and in the section about file uploads it talks about the extra
> features that could warrant a helper.
>
> Mike O'Regan