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

[Jon]

Hey Robert,

Sure, I'm always up to learn a new trick.

Thanks,
Jon A
On Aug 26, 2014 3:14 PM, "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:00 PM, <denver-pm-request at pm.org> wrote:
>>
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>>> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:49:34 -0600
>>> From: "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
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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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