Re: Accessing html forms...

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

"POST" requests should be quite simple to do in perl. Here's what a post request
looks like from the client:


     POST / HTTP/1.0
     Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
     Content-length: 24

     foo=fdsaf&bar=jk%3Blasdf

The "variables" are passed in the body of the request. You can just string them
together, <var>=<val>[&<var>=<val>]... doing character replacement as described
in the RFCs (hint: write your job in perl and use the CGI module which includes
uri_escape()).

Chris wrote:

> 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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