Re: Post Data - CAN use POST method
Re: Post Data - CAN use POST method
- Subject: Re: Post Data - CAN use POST method
- From: "Daniel A. Shockley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:45:39 -0500
From: "C. K. C." <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Subject: Post Data
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:26:00 +0800
I would like to know how to send form data through AppleScript.
Can anyone just provide an example?
It would really help.
As you can see below, the form data is NOT in the URL, it is sent as
encoded POST data. URL Access Scripting can handle any form you can
fill out on the web, unless they deliberately try to avoid this by
requiring a user to choose to click on a randomly-changed image to
select input (which PayPal does to avoid automated credit-card fraud).
URL Access Scripting can do almost anything you can do with a web browser.
------------ BEGIN SCRIPT
tell application "URL Access Scripting"
-- the URL below is the 'action' of a form on the page:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/Cgi/textareas.html
activate
download
"
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Perl/environment-example"; to
file ,
"Minx:Users:krioni:Desktop:newfile.html" form data ,
"review=Here+is+my+text" replacing yes with progress
end tell
------------ END SCRIPT
Running that returns the following (notice that the form data is
correctly not shown below, as it was POSTed, not GETted):
Here are the environment variables that this CGI script has been called with.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
SERVER_SOFTWARE = Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25 PHP/4.0.4pl1
SERVER_NAME = www.comp.leeds.ac.uk
GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL = HTTP/1.0
SERVER_PORT = 80
REQUEST_METHOD = POST
HTTP_ACCEPT = ''
PATH_INFO =
PATH_TRANSLATED =
SCRIPT_NAME = /cgi-bin/Perl/environment-example
QUERY_STRING =
REMOTE_HOST =
REMOTE_ADDR = 207.106.222.66
REMOTE_USER =
CONTENT_TYPE = application/x-www-form-urlencoded
CONTENT_LENGTH = 22
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Daniel A. Shockley
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