Re: scripting explorer
Re: scripting explorer
- Subject: Re: scripting explorer
- From: Erik Price <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:08:34 -0400
On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 04:52 AM, JJ wrote:
Theorically, you can do it, but I've never got it to work properly.
Try the same code with "URL Access Scripting" (a little app within your
scripting additions folder). It should work better than IE's
"FormData"...
tell app "URL Access Scripting"
download "http://www.php.net/search.php"; to (choose file name) form
data
"parameter1=value1¶meter2=value2"
end tell
You need "choose file name" to store the server's response, but the
rest of
the code is look like IE's structure...
True -- I could do it this way -- but I was hoping to avoid the
downloading of a file to my disk if possible. Actually, in my original
idea I did the same thing with a Perl script that controlled curl, but
when I saw that FormData could be passed via a call to Internet
Explorer's "OpenURL" action, I realized I might be able to skip this
whole process.
But if, as you say, it doesn't work, then nevermind.
I tried using TCPflow, to watch what was actually being sent, but I
couldn't figure out any logical pattern. It could also be due to my own
lack of familiarity with the HTTP spec. But sometimes additional
periods would be appended to the end of my POST data, other times a
mysterious "ap" would show up prepended to my POST data, sometimes the
POST data would be truncated. I think IE is sending extra data, and I'm
not sure how exactly to control it. The fact that there doesn't seem to
be a dictionary action to specify the content length could be part of
the problem. Not sure.
Thanks JJ
Erik
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Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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