[Denver-pm] Denver-pm Digest, Vol 13, Issue 1

[Jon]

Hello Robert,

I don't have the script handy, but I've used Mojo::UserAgent in the past as
it makes this trivial.

I realize most people don't think, "hey, I need a way to interact with a
webpage, let's install a web building framework", but it sounds like
exactly what you are looking for.

you can do something along the lines of:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Mojo::UserAgent;

my $url = 'http://example.com';

my $ua = Mojo::UserAgent->new;

my $result = $ua->post( $url . '/someform' => form => { somefield => 'some
value', anotherfield => 'another valule' } );

# do stuff with result

my ($url) = $result =~ /(http:\/\/.*)/; # this is not a good regex for a
number of reasons you'll have to figure out how to grab the url yourself

$ua->get($url);

I remember finding Mojo::UserAgent because I was having similar problems
with WWW::Mech. (and the guys on the #mojo channel on irc.perl.org are
usually super helpful).

The docs leave something to be desired, but check out:
http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/UserAgent

Best Regards,
Jon A


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>   I'm working on a new script to pull some files off an internal company
> app server.  I'm trying to figure it out using some examples I've found
> online but figured I'd ask.  Anyone have a script that does something close
> to this in a simple, easy to figure out manner:
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> Connect to http://apps.company.com
> Submit 4 values into a form and hit submit.
>    * This triggers some dynamic output that runs for a few mins while it
> generates some data then gives a link at the bottom.
> Grab the link at the bottom
> Download a .tgz off of the resulting link's page
>
> Robert
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