Posted by gordon.is.a.moron on 05/28/07 07:39

On May 28, 9:02 am, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed gordon.is.a.mo...@gmail.com
> writing innews:1180236207.767009.271570@g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I was pondering creating form filling software. As a sample I decided
> > to take a look at
> > the sign up page for hotmail (http://get.live.com/mail/overview then
> > Signup)
> > Probably not the best example as it looks quite complicated.
> > My main question is, when you have filled in the fields etc. and
> > click I Accept, where
> > is the form actually submitted?
>
> This may be of interest to you
> <http://intraproducts.com/usenet/requiredform.asp>. It's a form I made
> as an example of how to process a simple contact form in ASP classic. It
> uses CSS to format the form, and to show the user if a required field is
> missing. Full source for the markup and server side as well. Enjoy!
>
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> Please respond to the group so others can share

Thanks everyone. The links will come in handy. I should explain,
I want my software to fill in a form on a page which is not under my
control.
So running a server side script is not an option. I was looking more
towards
interpreting the page somehow and then filling in the fields. As I
know
the structure of the page (i.e. they are fairly static) it may be
possible.
One worry though is the log in aspect, I suspect it will log me out
all the time unless I handle cookies etc. And then there's the
javascript...

Anyway you gave me some good pointers, thanks.

Gordy

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