You could even get them to put a SOAP server up and do it via that protocol
over HTTP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Toback [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 07 September 2000 18:43
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Going Full Circle
>
>
> Gavin wrote:
>
> >Jim after somebody:
> >> > > Examine the page (or watch the traffic on a network analyzer)
> >> > > to determine what data is required, then use an appropriate
> >> > > development or scripting environment to do explicit HTTP POSTs
> >> > > to the URL to upload the data.
> >>
> >> Will this idea work with scrollable pick lists and such?
> >
> >I sort of suspect that anyone stupid enough to require their
> vendors to
> >hand-key all this data into a web browser are also likely to
> have highly
> >"dynamic" web applications, so the hazard is that as soon as
> you figure out
> >how to automate this, they will change their web application
> in some subtle
> >way so that either your automation breaks, or silently
> starts creating
> >incorrect / corrupt information.
>
> That's true, but there's a good way around it. This is a situation
> tailor-made for [plug your ears, Gavin] XML. I presume that
> it's easy to
> generate an XML encapsulation of the data at your end (which
> it is if all
> the information is computer-generated), and since the
> customer obviously
> has some clever (or rather, Microsoft-immersed) web
> programmers at their
> end, they can just as easily decode it. You can then offer automated
> delivery of quality data to all your customers.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
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