Hi,
I'm trying to remote-control a site over which I have little control
(it is a php app I installed on MY site, but I would like to leave it
alone as much as possible).
This app presents a series of forms to do various things.
I can pre-fill the forms just manipulating the URL (*veeeery* long
URLs, but it works).

The problem:
I still have to manually hit the [submit] button.
Is there a way to force it programmatically?

The form is a <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://
192.168.0.222/index.php?do=newtask&amproject=2" method="post">
and the button is a stupid <button accesskey="s" type="submit">Add
this task</button>

Can someone me, please?
TiA
Mauro

Mauro schreef:
> Hi,

Hi Mauro,

> I'm trying to remote-control a site over which I have little control
> (it is a php app I installed on MY site, but I would like to leave it
> alone as much as possible).
> This app presents a series of forms to do various things.
> I can pre-fill the forms just manipulating the URL (*veeeery* long
> URLs, but it works).
>
> The problem:
> I still have to manually hit the [submit] button.
> Is there a way to force it programmatically?

Post a form on a page you have before you?
Hit the Enterbutton works on most browsers.

I am not sure I can follow you however: You do not mind creating
horrible URLs, but you DO mind pressing the submit button?

Anyway, with a small modification in the page you can make it autosubmit
via javascript.
For example:
index.php?do=newtask&amproject=2&amp;autosubmit= Y

Then from index.php:
check if autosubmit is in the URL, and if it is, do something like:
document.forms.myform.submit();

For that to work you must change your site of course. (You know: the one
you didn't want to change.)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

>
> The form is a <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://
> 192.168.0.222/index.php?do=newtask&amproject=2" method="post">
> and the button is a stupid <button accesskey="s" type="submit">Add
> this task</button>
>
> Can someone me, please?
> TiA
> Mauro

Mauro wrote:
> I'm trying to remote-control a site over which I have little control

Perl, and I am sure other languages as well, has the capability to
submit information to a form on a web page that you do not have visible
in a browser.

On 8 Apr, 16:14, Scott Bryce <sbr...@scottbryce.com> wrote:
> Mauro wrote:
> > I'm trying to remote-control a site over which I have little control
>
> Perl, and I am sure other languages as well, has the capability to
> submit information to a form on a web page that you do not have visible
> in a browser.

Thanks,
that's exactly what I need.
Do You have specific pointers?
I would hate to browse hundreds of packages on CPAN only to discover I
chose the wrong one.

TiA
Mauro

Mauro <ZioByte@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8 Apr, 16:14, Scott Bryce <sbr...@scottbryce.com> wrote:
>> Mauro wrote:
>> > I'm trying to remote-control a site over which I have little control
>>
>> Perl, and I am sure other languages as well, has the capability to
>> submit information to a form on a web page that you do not have visible
>> in a browser.
>
> Thanks,
> that's exactly what I need.
> Do You have specific pointers?
> I would hate to browse hundreds of packages on CPAN only to discover I
> chose the wrong one.

LWP is the low-level mechanism for web client programming, and supports
a variety of protocols.

WWW::Mechanize uses LWP, and adds higher-level capabilities like parsing
and submitting forms, maintaining a jar for multi-page "session
", and more.

One hurdle to using these tools is that they're *not* JavaScript-aware.
If you want to "drive" a site that relies on JS, you'll have to examine it
to see what effect (if any) the JS has on the submitted data, then duplicate
that effect in your Perl code.

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