Re: 2 Qs: archives & radio buttons

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:20:17PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
<snip> 

It's been a couple of weeks and noone has responded and 
since I've found an answer, I'll post it.

This works:    also see libwww_6526

    ###     now on 'My Searches' page, radio buttons select which search
    my $my_searches_page = $mech->uri();         #   to return to

    my $form = $mech->current_form();
    #   'rdoMySearch'   was pulled from the source of the page I was querying
    my $radio = $form->find_input( 'rdoMySearch', 'radio' );
    my @radios = $radio->possible_values;

    for my $r ( @radios )
    {   #   select a button and click search
        $mech->set_visible( [ radio => $r ] ) ;
        #   <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Submit" VALUE="Search Now" ...>
        #   3 submit buttons differing only in value so click() not appropriate
        $response = $mech->click_button( value => "Search Now" );
        die qq/mech->click_button( value => "Search Now" ); returned undef/
                                                unless(defined $response);

        #   do whatever with the returned page, 
        #   in my case it was pull out the job listings

        #   back to 'My Searches' page, where the radio buttons are
        #$mech->back();                 not working for me, backs up too far
        $response = $mech->get( $my_searches_page );
        die qq/$mech->get( $my_searches_page );  failed/
                                                unless( $mech->success() );
        sleep 1;    #   CalJobs seems to need time to think
    }

I also asked about sites on the web where I could search the libwww archives.
After DLing 7500 messages from 1999 to present to my own computer to search
I found these archives on the web:

http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/libwww-perl/archive/
contains messages from 1994-2001 but is not searchable.

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/libwww-perl/
doesn't go back as far but is searchable.

Hope this helps somebody.
Mike
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