Re: Posting to a web page
So it's no different than a GET except that it doesn't go in the URL? That's easy! Thanks Sarah, len morgan On 10/16/2010 7:18 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Len you need to pair up the variable names with their values. Something like this: put "username="& URLencode(tUserName) into myDataString put "&password="& URLencode(tPassword) after myDataString etc, etc. Then you can use the post command as you have it below. Cheers, Sarah On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Len Morgan wrote: I'm trying to create a "value added" front end to a web site. What I need to do first is login to my account. I suspect the the entire site is created in the same "style" so once I get past logging in, I should be able to scrape the rest of the data I need to present in LiveCode locally. The login page is a simple html form with 4 "fields": auth_vars[username] auth_vars[password] auth_vars[submit] Value="Login" auth_vars[action] Value="login" The form will be submitted to /login.php using POST My question is how can I create this login sequence and send it to login.php followed by the variables? I know with the GET method you have varname=value separated by commas. LiveCode will let me do something like: post myDataString to URL "http://mywebsite.com/login.php"; but I don't know how to format myDataString in order to have it accepted. Any help or pointers to web sites that might enlighten me are appreciated. len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Posting to a web page
Len you need to pair up the variable names with their values. Something like this: put "username=" & URLencode(tUserName) into myDataString put "&password=" & URLencode(tPassword) after myDataString etc, etc. Then you can use the post command as you have it below. Cheers, Sarah On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Len Morgan wrote: > I'm trying to create a "value added" front end to a web site. What I need > to do first is login to my account. I suspect the the entire site is > created in the same "style" so once I get past logging in, I should be able > to scrape the rest of the data I need to present in LiveCode locally. > > The login page is a simple html form with 4 "fields": > > auth_vars[username] > auth_vars[password] > auth_vars[submit] Value="Login" > auth_vars[action] Value="login" > > The form will be submitted to /login.php using POST > > My question is how can I create this login sequence and send it to login.php > followed by the variables? I know with the GET method you have > varname=value separated by commas. LiveCode will let me do something like: > > post myDataString to URL "http://mywebsite.com/login.php"; > > but I don't know how to format myDataString in order to have it accepted. > > Any help or pointers to web sites that might enlighten me are appreciated. > > len morgan > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- Cheers, Sarah Rodeo discussion: http://alltiera.com/discussion/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Posting to a web page
I'm trying to create a "value added" front end to a web site. What I need to do first is login to my account. I suspect the the entire site is created in the same "style" so once I get past logging in, I should be able to scrape the rest of the data I need to present in LiveCode locally. The login page is a simple html form with 4 "fields": auth_vars[username] auth_vars[password] auth_vars[submit] Value="Login" auth_vars[action] Value="login" The form will be submitted to /login.php using POST My question is how can I create this login sequence and send it to login.php followed by the variables? I know with the GET method you have varname=value separated by commas. LiveCode will let me do something like: post myDataString to URL "http://mywebsite.com/login.php"; but I don't know how to format myDataString in order to have it accepted. Any help or pointers to web sites that might enlighten me are appreciated. len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution