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

[Robert L. Harris]

I actually got it working.  I'm sure it's not ideal as I see some areas
needing cleanup but I'll be happy to share with anyone who wants to see how
I did it.



On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Jon <three18ti at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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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