Re: automate multi form submission

["Paul J. Keenan" <paul@funkiest.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:17:16PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am setting up a system where I can automatically submit all
> 	the info to a FORM for registering a new domain name using perl
> 	scripts.
> 
> 	I use the following in my perl script and it works with most of the forms:
> 
> 	echo "domain=hello.world.org.au&action=submit" | lynx -dump -post_data "aunic.telstra.net/cgi-bin/td.pl"
> 
> 	But this will fail when there needs multi part FORM submission
> 	which is happened when applying for .net.au domains, the form is
> 	available at:
> 
> 	https://registry.connect.com.au/cgi-bin/na_create.cgi
> 
> 	Can anyone please help me with automating the submission of this
> 	FROM??
> 
> 	Thanks.
> 
> Shao.

Install libwww-perl and take a look at the man page for
HTTP::Request::Common.  It can do all you require, and a lot more
efficiently than starting up a shell and lynx.

Any problems, post back to the list.  HTH.

-- 
Regards,
Paul