Re: How program automatic 'filler forms' robots?

On Wed, 15 May 2002, M wrote: > suppose this form into myurl.html (i will replace < and > by [ and ] to avoid > unwanted url treatment into msgs) > > [form] > [input type=text name=driver length=20] > [input type=text name=os length=20] > [/form] > > I figured could open myurl.html already with filled values by calling > > http://.../myurl.html?driver=midi&os=windows > > but it appears not working. I regularly program PHP and pass url parameters in > this way to my php scripts successully. > > My problem is as follow: there are many forms around web I will need fill > regularly with values at every week (or months). My idea is to create a > database with these web urls, containing all info needed to fill automatically > these forms. Probably will need to store info about these pages uses get or > post commands, I really don't know how to begin with. > > At every week, I would call my PHP script and browse all these urls and > automatically fill values to call pages with values already filled. I even > don't know how my 'robot' could send button action commands to these forms. > > Ok, thats all. Many web browsers support form autofilling. I suspect that's the way to do it. It'd be a whole lot of work to parse-n-proxy all those forms with PHP. It's much more easily dealt with by the client. miguel