On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> "POST" requests should be quite simple to do in perl. Here's what a post > request > looks like from the client: > > > POST / HTTP/1.0 > Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded > Content-length: 24 > > foo=fdsaf&bar=jk%3Blasdf > > The "variables" are passed in the body of the request. You can just > string them together, <var>=<val>[&<var>=<val>]... doing character > replacement as described in the RFCs (hint: write your job in perl and > use the CGI module which includes uri_escape()). > Sorry, I think we've got confussed. I know perl very well, and as Ralph said it has proved invaluable. However, what I want to do is ~send~ something to a html server via a POST operation. Scenerio is as follows: There is a web page on a remote site that contains a form which I must fill out on a regular basis. Rather than loading netscape and going to the page, then filling out the form, I would like to write a program to connect to the remote http server (actually via a proxy) and send the POST information automatically. I can then add it as a cron job. Unfortunately I don't know the protocol used for sending POST (I've done plenty of cgi-bin to except POST before), and I was wanting some information on that, or a utility that does this allready (something like snarf). Thanks again, Chris Leishman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
