Hello Bryan, Unlike the new model of Web Services employing the SOAP-protocol and its WDSL-declarations, CGI-solutions have no fixed way of telling what parameters they expect and how they should be formed. The only thing you can do, basically, is look at the URL, substitute the data with your own and pray that if it works, the site doesn't change its CGI at some point in the future.
In this case, the cgi program is an .asp file, which we find before the question mark. Its parameters are divided by ampersands and show their names before the equality signs and their content behind. So the PageViewer.asp on the server expects the parameters: - HEAD - SEC - DIR - Calendar - Dy - Mo - Yr We can conclude what some of these parameters are (such as: Dy = Day ; Mo = Month ; Yr = Year) and guess at some others (such as: Calendar = 1 therefore the next 3 parameters are Dy, Mo and Yr). But unless it's documented somewhere, there's no real way of knowing except through trial and error. And as a lot of sites aren't particularly happy with people extracting and repackaging the content of their site, they quite happily change their own systems on a regular basis. Hope this helped nonetheless, Jan Schenkel. "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (De Rochefoucald) --- Bryan McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK folks, this one is beyond my skills. How do I get > Rev to send this URL > properly to get the page back? I suspect it involves > sending custom headers > and such, but how do I know how the CGI expects the > information? > > http://www.cboe.com/Common/PageViewer.asp?HEAD=Market+Statistics+Summary&SEC=3&DIR=TTMDMarketStat&Calendar=1&Dy=26&Mo=9&Yr=2002 > > Help much appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
