get() giving 500 and object errors

[spazm]

ch...@chrisduffin.org reported on Oct 31, 2012

Hello,

So I recently created a script that get's a login page, fills out the form, and submits it, in order to test the functionality on a website. This code works perfectly fine on my desktop, however, when running it on my server, the get request seems to fail (with a 500 error) and I get a number of errors about missing or undefined object.

code snippet:

sub canLogin
{

    $mech->get($loginurl);
    $mech->save_content( 'login.html' );
    print "Status code:".$mech->status()."\n";
    if($@)
    { 
        $loginfail = 1;
        return "Could not load login page - Status Code: ".$mech->status();
    }
    print $mech->text();
    $mech->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new());
    $mech->form_id('login-form');
    $mech->field ('username' => $username);
    $mech->field ('password' => $password);
    eval { $mech->submit() };
    $logintime = $mech->client_total_time;
    if($@)
    {
        $loginfail = 1;
        return "Could not login - Status Code: ".$mech->status();
    }
    if(index($mech->text(), "Login failed") != -1)
    {
        $loginfail = 1;
        return "Page loaded fine but login failed, check credentials. ";
    }
    return "Login succeded: $logintime ms :- ";
}

On my desktop, this produces the following output:

Status code:200
Text content from page

On the server, I get

Status code:500
 There is no form with ID "login-form" at ./check_boards_func line 52.
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1407.
Can't locate object method "new" via package "LWPx::TimedHTTP::https::Socket" at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 31.

Both machines have the WWW::Mechanize and WWW::Mechanize::Timed modules installed, as well as LWPx::TimedHTTP::https, and both are running Ubuntu 12.04 x64.

Both using 

WWW::Mechanize  1.72
WWW::Mechanize::Timed   0.44

Details

Imported from Google Code issue 240 via archive

• Type: Defect
• Date: Oct 31, 2012
• Reporter: ch...@chrisduffin.org
• Owner: ----
• Priority: Medium
• Status: New

Comments

kabac...@gmail.com commented on Feb 4, 2013 :

Did you ever Got this resolved ?

[oalders]

I don't think we would be able to reproduce this.