Re: Accessing html forms...
When Chris wrote, I replied:
I'd use pure perl for this, but if you don't already know perl5
the learning curve would be pretty steep. If you commit to the
learning, though, you'll have expanded your toolkit in a BIG way.
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is off the topic, but I figured I could ask anyhow.
>
> I have to periodically access an post type form on a web page, and I would
> like to do this automatically (ie. write a script/program to do it, rather
> than having to load up netscape and do it by hand). I've played with
> programs like snarf for downloading pages, but I need to actually post
> some data to a server.
>
> Anyone have any information on ways to do this? I must admit that I don't
> know too much about http - expecially cgi stuff.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Chris
>
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