Re: How to script URL Access to post radio buttons?
Re: How to script URL Access to post radio buttons?
- Subject: Re: How to script URL Access to post radio buttons?
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:33:26 +0100
At 11:14 pm -0400 on 17/4/2001, Jeff wrote:
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At this moment the database seems broken, so I cannot verify this, but I
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believe the syntax you want is
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form data "QUERY00=climber&SAVEDB=ananova"
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Otherwise, it looks like you're right on.
That's nice to know. I retried it in that form, which works.... but seems
to do a date-limited search.* There may be something more complex going on
in the Javascript that surrounds the form; I might look again at that. But
kudos, and thanks, to Jeff for pointing that out.
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You might find you need to URL encode the form data string, or better still,
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use the MT Pack CGI command from Tanaka's osax 2.0.
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set parsedFormData to {{"QUERY00", "rock climber"}, {"SAVEDB", "ananova"}}
Actually just "climber" - usually folk who are newsworthy are falling off
mountains in the UK :-) Well, we call them mountains. Rock climbers suffer
rather fewer newsworthy injuries. (No, don't go there.)
Another OSAX? I'd be interested to know what it does that plain text
doesn't. (I recall that iCab uses URL Access for downloading, so it must
have to jump this hoop too, presumably without OSAX.)
Charles
* PS looking again at the search results, it turns out that it has found
the more recent items; but it has ordered the results by "accuracy" rather
than date. Once more to the Javascript, methinks.
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