Re: debian and MCI paging problem...
david oswald <david.oswald@citicorp.com> writes:
> I have created a script providing the pin # and the message (which is
> no problem) but HOW do I pass this information back to MCI to get it
> processed if I'm not using a web based browser to fill in the message
> fields. Is this something that I am over looking the obvious - I hope
> so...
Two ideas; both depend on non-interactive ways to call lynx and have
it send form data. Something like: (sorry about the long line)
lynx -dump "http://www.mci.com/cgi-bin/sendpage.cgi?pin=234567&textMessage=this%20is%20a%20test%0D%0Asecond%20line.%0D%0A";
Will probably work. Either that, or this little perl script that
calls lynx (there are probably Perl modules that'll do this for you,
but I couldn't find them).
#!/usr/bin/perl
use URI::Escape;
($pin, $message) = @ARGV;
open(LYNXOUT,
"|lynx -post_data http://www.mci.com/cgi-bin/sendpage.cgi";);
print LYNXOUT 'pin=', uri_escape($pin),
'&textMessage=', uri_escape($message);
The difference between the two is that the long lynx line issues a GET
request to the host, while the perl script has lynx issuing a POST
request. The form as MCI has it causes the browser to issue a POST
command, though it shouldn't make any difference to the cgi program.
If you decide that you can use a get request, you may consider using
wget instead of lynx; I think it would be faster for you:
wget -O - "http://www.mci.com/blahblahblah";
All these commands will produce as output whatever the mci cgi script
spits back to the browser, so you may want to redirect output to
/dev/null.
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