Wilkinson, Mark <[log in to unmask]> writes, after Steve
Dirickson:

> I did something like this using perl recently. The LWP/HTTP modules will
> allow you, in effect to create a web-browser on the fly and do
PUT/POST/GET
> etc no problem. The thing I wrote was with perl/linux - not sure which
perl
> modules have been ported to Perl/iX yet, or whether Perl/iX has access to
> image or whatever. All I can say is that it wasn't really *that*
difficult.
>
> If people need more info, I'd be happy to oblige.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Dirickson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 07 September 2000 15:30
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Going Full Circle
> >
> >
> > > I have noticed the same thing. In fact, one of our
> > customers (who buys
> > > rubber from us) insists that all the quality data (tests) for
> > > each load
> > > delivered be entered through their website. I have looked
> > at all kinds
> > > of ways to enable the data to be entered automatically (e.g. from an
> > > Excel spreadsheet or with Visual Basic) but their HTML
> > pages defy any
> > > attempt to add the data that way. It is down to the good old
> > > keystrokes!
> > > If anyone knows of a way around this, I would be happy to
> > > hear of it. In
> > > fact, I believe I even posted this very question to the list
> > > before with no response.
> >
> > 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?  In our case, the
customer has provided three scrollable selection boxes which need selected,
and another scrollable pick list of items is presented.  We then need to
select only the items from this second box that we are interested in (mainly
by date).

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]     Therm-O-Link, Inc.
Phone: (330) 527-2124                   P. O. Box 285
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