RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: Automated Login

You can use fsockopen() to build the HTTP header you are sending to a web site in order to mimic a post form submission. Ken -----Original Message----- From: Jason Barnett [mailto:jasbarne@indiana.edu] Sent: April 28, 2004 3:25 PM To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: Automated Login Ron Herhuth wrote: > I am trying to build an automated dashboard sort of thing that goes > and checks if several of my clients sites are functioning and > reporting back the findings. > > I have two types of URLs that I'm attmepting to check. > > 1) Typical static URLs example: http://www.yahoo.com > > 2) I would like to have the app attempt to login by sending the Login > handling page the username and password as POST data. This seems like > it would be easy if it were a GET form but it is a POST form. Some POST forms can actually be passed information in the query string, as if it was using the GET method. I use this bookmark to test it: javascript:(function(){var x,i; x = document.forms; for (i = 0; i < x.length; ++i) x[i].method=%22get%22; alert(%22Changed %22 + x.length + %22 forms to use the GET method. After submitting a form from this page, you should be able to bookmark the result.%22); })(); Thanks to Jesse Ruderman's website for this very handy bookmark! > > How can I hit the pages and report back if the site is working and the > page loaded, and in the case of the login pages, if I was able to have > the script successfully login? > > Thanks, > Ron The cURL extension is probably going to help you with this. http://www.php.net/curl -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php