I think the best approach to website automation is to use a proxy server with logging that sits b/t your browser and the website and look at the HTTP traffic. Unless there is a special protocol b/t the java applet and the website, you'll normally see an HTTP POST/GET...and then your approach should be to use LWP to recreate the HTTP POST/GET. In other words, forget that you have an applet or whatever client-side script sitting in your browser, and look at what your browser output is...at the HTTP level. This approach should work with any special proprietary client code that's speaking HTTP. As for proxy servers, you can google on that. I use Proxomitron, mainly because I'm used to it, but there's a fair number including perl/Apache code out there. -- Jenko
> I'm trying to automate a process involving a website. I was hoping to > use LWP and various other perl modules to post variables to the pages to > work my way through the website. > > I have a problem where to log onto a particular page I need to pass a > username/password to a java applet. This is where I'm stuck - has > anyone come across any way to manipulate a java applet via perl?(please > ignore the obvious security concerns associated with this for the > moment) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list Perl-Win32-Admin@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
