On 14/7/00 5:03 pm, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone help with any experience in this area. I can't find any
> documentation on http headers property. I am trying to automate some
> activities which use CGI's to register new customers. The forms take ages to
> fill in, and I'd like to get Metacard to post them to make the process
> painless. However this is not obviously as easy as knowing the form and the
> url of encoding the data and I suspect that the CGI is expecting something
> in the http headers (perhaps the type of browser?).
>
> Is it possible to look as if you are calling the CGI from Netscape or
> Explorer by setting the http headers?
If you use the built in post command in combination with the urlEncode
functions (see the script example I just pointed you too) you should find it
a simple process to do the same work as a browser does posting a form.
Regards,
Kevin
Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/>
Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing).
Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/
Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
