This is similiar to what I was hoping to accomplish. Pull information off a web page put it into a webpage and then put in to a data base to be pulled out into webpages
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:30:21PM -0800, David Talkington wrote: > > > > dbrett wrote: > > > > >Does anybody know of a program which will get https pages? > > > > curl will do it, according to the man page. Hey, Ed, thanks for the > > tip; I'd never heard of that one! > > We use curl a fair bit at work to drive web pages from Linux. We've got a > supplier that expects information to be sent via https to their servers and > actually expect that an end user will fill in the forms. We've got a whole > bunch of code that grabs the pages, parses the output, fills in the forms, > submits them, and grabs the results and logs it to a database. It all happens > nicely in the background and neither our end user nor the supplier knows what's > happening. Every now and then the web pages change, but it's usually not that > hard to figure out the mods we need to make to our code to accommodate them. > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
