Downloading form based web page

From: Takeshi (do.not.spam.me_at_work.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:18:34 +0000 (UTC)

Hi,

I'm a Perl virgin (programmed in many languages though C/C++, Java). I
want to write a little script to download dynamic data generated by a
form based web page. By that, I mean, one has to select options
(actually one combo box item on the page) to have the data generated.

Currently, I do this manually, by having a timer app pop up a reminder
to save the data. I thought "there must be a better way to do this". I
googled and came accros wget but I don't think that can handle form
based web pages - it is simply good at sucking URLs. OK, the to get to
the point - anyone knows how I can write a little script that will allow
me to programatically select a combo box displayed on the page - and
then save the page ?

A little code snippet would be most useful as I am new to Perl
(alternatively, if some one has already written such a script or can
point me to the location of such a script, I'll be most grateful).

MTIA

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