Filling out a form in perl using HTML::Form - perl

Question

I am trying to fill out a form on a separate page and return the data, but my hosting does not support the www::mechanize module. I saw that HTML::FORM would accomplish the same thing but I am getting the error
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at G:\Programming\test.pl line 12.
Here is the code I have been testing with
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::Form;
use HTML::Strip;
my $base_uri = "UTF-8";
my $url = 'xxxxxxx';
my $form = HTML::Form->parse($url, $base_uri);
$form->value(Zip => '74014');
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->request($form->click);

Answer 1

The first argument for parse is HTML document itself but not the URL.
The required arguments is the HTML document to parse ($html_document)
and the URI used to retrieve the document ($base_uri). The base URI is
needed to resolve relative action URIs. The provided HTML document
should be a Unicode string (or US-ASCII).
So you need to first get this document (with LWP::UserAgent) and parse response:
my $response = $ua->get($url);
if ($response->is_success) {
my $form = HTML::Form->parse($response->decoded_content, $base_uri);
...
}
else {
die $response->status_line;
}