Baker: There are some really cool plugins for Firefox that everyone can use, to one degree or another. Try:
A DOM inspector https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1806 A Web Development tool (Firebug) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 IE Tab https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 An FTP assistant (FireFTP - takes a little getting used to) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684 A cool download statusbar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26 A cool tab manager https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122 Hope this helps. Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Baker Hughes >Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:54 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [U2] -UV- HTTP secure logins > >Karl, Rex, > >What firefox plugin is best suited for this? I'm looking at 'About >site', 'JSView', and 'Yslow'. Which did you use? > >I have to do a similar feature enhancement as Karl. Our Sales Mgr wants >Universe (10.2) to launch a browser from within their Accuterm session >and get a comparative price quote. The only problem is the >website they >want to use hides everything in the form / POST method. > >tia, >-Baker > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rex Gozar >Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:29 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [U2] -UV- HTTP secure logins > >Karl, > >The site you want to access may be using either cookies, form >variables, >or both for user authentication. In order to use curl, wget, or any >other programmatic retrieval, you will need to understand what exactly >needs to be passed back and forth between the client and the website. > >I suggest getting FireFox (if you do not have it already) and >installing > one of the free plug-ins that displays the http content headers and >responses. You can then log into the site and retrieve the data >manually, while logging any cookies, session ids, and the like. You >will then be prepared to create the curl scripts for automating the >retrieval. > >I suspect that your script will have to mimic the user/password form >request, get the cookies from the response, and pass them in the >subsequent data request. I also suspect that the cookie will be set to >expire once the session ends, so you will not be able to reuse it for >the next request. > >rex >------- >u2-users mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ >------- >u2-users mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
