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Interacting with a web page
How would I write a program to interact with a web page? I'm trying to send information to the username and password input fields. Right now I can assume that there are only two input fields on the page.
Edit: I guess I'm looking for specific commands/functions/libraries/whatever. Maybe you could show an example of how to do it on this site?
Edit: I guess I'm looking for specific commands/functions/libraries/whatever. Maybe you could show an example of how to do it on this site?
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It would have to emulate what the browser does. That is, use the HTTP protocol. This will typically download a URL, construct a reply and send that.
An alternative is to use "screen scraping" to read a browser's display, populate the fields and send the request. When an open protocol such as HTTP is so well documented and ubiquitous, you wouldn't seriously consider pursuing this route.
A library that can help is CURL ( http://curl.haxx.se/ ). You should be able to find examples there.
An alternative is to use "screen scraping" to read a browser's display, populate the fields and send the request. When an open protocol such as HTTP is so well documented and ubiquitous, you wouldn't seriously consider pursuing this route.
A library that can help is CURL ( http://curl.haxx.se/ ). You should be able to find examples there.
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Thank you, I was hoping it would be simpler than that. I guess I'll have to do some research. It looks like CURL will help.
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I've been reading up on some simple HTTP and HTML stuff... If you have the stomach for it, here's some documentation:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
Hmm today has been successful, I've made a custom proxy in c++, so far only using sockets... it's far from perfect, but it was fun to do!
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