Re: Agent to log in to a website and fetch pages

2002-09-02 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Michael D. Smith wrote: > > That is two entirely separate things. Both of which I too have been > trying to figure out. As usual the documentation goes on at length, and > yet somehow never tells you what you want to know :) > > In case someone wants to give an example, specifically, this page

Re: Agent to log in to a website and fetch pages

2002-09-02 Thread Mike G
I just wrote: >Once you've seen that, doing a POST of a form is only a little more involved. I don't >have an example of it online, but you should look up the CGI function make_form(). >Make_form creates all the parameter, value pairs for the form submission. Sorry, but the make_form function

Re: Agent to log in to a website and fetch pages

2002-09-02 Thread Mike G
>Hello, >I am interested in creating a Perl agent to log into a >website and download pages for me. >Basically I want to submit a form using this agent. >Thanks, >Hardik There's a simple example of doing a GET of a page at http://www.gossland.com/course/cgi_use/requests.html Once you've seen

Re: Agent to log in to a website and fetch pages

2002-09-02 Thread Michael D. Smith
That is two entirely separate things. Both of which I too have been trying to figure out. As usual the documentation goes on at length, and yet somehow never tells you what you want to know :) In case someone wants to give an example, specifically, this page for the HTML download: http://tim

Re: Agent to log in to a website and fetch pages

2002-09-02 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Hardik Oza wrote: > Hello, > I am interested in creating a Perl agent to log into a > website and download pages for me. > Basically I want to submit a form using this agent. LWP is the normal tool for accessing web pages via Perl script - contained in libwww-perl bundle. Check in .../perl/site/

Agent to log in to a website and fetch pages

2002-09-02 Thread Hardik Oza
Hello, I am interested in creating a Perl agent to log into a website and download pages for me. Basically I want to submit a form using this agent. Thanks, Hardik __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.c