Posted by Daniel R. Tobias on 08/20/06 16:22

David Smithz wrote:
> For example, the Bank Egg, has a feature called Money Manager. When you log
> in to Egg, it goes away and logs into all your other bank accounts for you
> to give you all your balances. This uses a feature where it controls the web
> browser to replicate typing in your username, password etc.

My bank's site has an "aggregator" that shows information from all my
other online accounts, but it does this server-side, rather than
client-side. In other words, there is scripting at the back end, on the
server, that logs in to all those other sites (using passwords I
supplied) and gets my info. This sort of thing can be programmed in a
language such as Perl, which has a module to issue HTTP get and post
requests. The user's browser isn't involved at all, except when the
results of all the back-end activity are displayed.

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