Posted by Scott Bryce on 05/28/07 13:48

gordon.is.a.moron@gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

You will have no choice but to write a script. It may run on a web
server or locally.

> So running a server side script is not an option.

It may be your only option.

> I was looking more towards interpreting the page somehow and then
> filling in the fields.

Perl has tools that will do that. I imagine PHP does as well.

You can look here, but you would need to know Perl to make use of it.

http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/WWW-Mechanize-1.24/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm


> One worry though is the log in aspect, I suspect it will log me out
> all the time unless I handle cookies etc.

www::mechanize can handle cookies.

> And then there's the javascript...

If the page you are trying to interpret requires Javascript, you may not
be able to do what you want to do.

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