>>>>> "BM" == Bob Mariotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BM> I have several reasonably complex scripts that use LWP to interact BM> with a remote secured web site. Works great and reliably. Now BM> the remote service site has implemented expiring passwords BM> requiring the clients (my script) to change passwords periodically BM> before its next access. BM> Q: How does the "submit" button interrelate with the "next" URL? BM> Example: BM> Initial https connect to specified page : BM> https://xxx.yyy.com/ssp/jsp/blah.jsp BM> LWP received the resulting page successfully which contains a form that BM> has fields for username, current password, new password, new password BM> again. The usual stuff. BM> By examining the received HTML code I determined the fieldnames used BM> above so that I could load them on my next POST operation. I also noted BM> that on the FORM statement the value of the ACTION parameter was BM> "ABC123" with NO extension. Also, the SUBMIT tag has an onClick BM> function similar to this: "onClick="return subrname()". BM> I assume that if the LWP POST operation is performed it emulates someone BM> clicking on the SUBMIT button. The subroutine is a javascript editing BM> routine that issues an alert(msg) and returns false or true. first, i would recommend using WWW::Mechanize for this. it will remove a large chunk of your lwp code (it inherits from LWP). it makes fetching pages and filling/clicking on them much simpler. if the form tag has a URL for its action, then you can ignore the onclick. it may be calling some javascript to verify stuff but that is bogus. only the server should be doing data verification for real (anyone who uses only javascript for this has a large hole waiting to be explored). uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
