Help using WWW::Mechanize to follow links

[1newby1]

I've been trying to get

http://WWW::mechanize

to access this link, but everytime it tries to access the link, either with $mech->links() or $mech->follow_link(...) I get the error "Error GETing javascript:self.close<>: Protocol scheme 'javascript' is not supported..." Thanks for your help.

 

[Kirsle]

Probably, the link is calling a JavaScript function on the site... the HTML probably looks something like this:

<a href="javascript:self.close()">Close Window</a>

Or something along those lines...

http://WWW::Mechanize

doesn't have a JavaScript interpreter and therefore it can't access that link. It only follows links on protocols it supports (i.e. HTTP protocol).

 

[raklet]

Kirsle is correct. There is no javascript support in Mechanize or LWP or any of the other modules that I have looked at on CPAN.