1) Yes, I have read the documentation for Mechanize and have installed Crypt::SSLeay and IO::Socket::SSL. From what I've read a simple https Get should work just fine with Mech.
2) It may seem weird to save a form page, but I actually do need to do that because some data I'm interested in is in the javascript of the page. The main point is that Get is dropping pieces of the page content from this site (whether it's a form or plain content), and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. Furthermore, it drops different bits of content on different runs of the exact same code.
Thanks,