[Denver-pm] Sample HTTP interaction script.

[Robert L. Harris]

So close.  Seems the form is being done in Javascript which Mech doesn't
work with.  Looking into WWW::Scripter next it seems.


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Robert L. Harris <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I need to throw something simple together real quick.  A one-timer that
> SHOULDN"T be re-used...
> >
> > I need to connect to a site,  http://foo.bar:/8052/Login.html
> >
> > I am then prompted for a login/password.  Once I log in I am given a new
> page : http://foo.bar:8052/App.html
> >
> > On this page is a search box, amongst other things, I want to put in a
> value (user filled variable) and post the search.  Then scrape the
> resulting page for a result.
> >
> >
> > I have done basic auth using apache auth but this is the app requiring a
> login using a backend database.  Also I've never filled in a search page
> like this.
> >
> > Does anyone have a script that might do something similar I can take
> apart and use as an example?  I need it semi-quick but I can't justify
> spending more than a day on it.
>
> Should be easy with WWW::Mechanize:
>
>    https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize#SYNOPSIS
>
> HTH,
>
> j
>
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