Forms

Orpheus posted this at 00:06 — 19th January 2000.

Joined: Nov 1999

I've got 2 things I need to know about.

1) Is there a Perl module that will allow Perl to fill out forms and submit them to web sites.

2) Is it possible for Perl to store cookies like Netscape or IE, this one goes with #1 if you were wondering.

See I am trying to login to an online service from my computer using perl. But it won't work unless I can fill out the form AND support the cookie that goes along with the service.

Orpheus posted this at 21:45 — 25th January 2000.

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Anyone?

Rob Pengelly posted this at 05:49 — 26th January 2000.

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Orpheus,
I am not %100 sure what you mean, but if the form is using GET method to parse the input, you could fill out the form, and have you browser take you to the results.

So, if the form you wanted to login to used the GET method, and If I understand what you are trying to do, you could do it

so if the site you wanted to login to was like: http://url.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi?name=LOGINNAME&password=PASSWORD
you could do somthing like

code:

$login="rob";
password="pword";
print "Location: [url="http://url.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi?name=$login&password=$password\nURI:"]http://url.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi?name=$login&password=$password\nURI:[/url]  http://url.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi?name=$login&password=$password\n\n"  ;
[/code]

Or you could use the LWP::Simple to connect to the URL, and ave the html page in a $var.
code:use LWP::Simple;
$login="rob";
password="pword";
$html = get("http://url.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi?name=$login&password=$password
");
[/code]

Sorry if that did not help at all.

**Patrick, apply the [ code ] hack again please   **

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[This message has been edited by robp (edited 26 January 2000).]

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Orpheus posted this at 22:11 — 28th January 2000.

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Well the problem now is getting perl to store the cookie like the browser does.

any ides?