RE: capturing e-mail text strings to http posting
RE: capturing e-mail text strings to http posting
- Subject: RE: capturing e-mail text strings to http posting
- From: Lars de Runtz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:41:47 -0700
If you know the <FORM> elements, you can have IE "do script", JavaScript
fill out the form, and then submit it...
The JavaScript works great too, if you have more than a few hundred bytes of
data to put into a <TEXTAREA>, then the JavScript could add whatever text
you want to what is already in it...loop through all of the data yo want to
add into the <TEXTAREA>, each time adding a chunk of text.
The do JavaScript to hit the submit button.
-Lars DeRuntz
SalesLink
Newark, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Tuckey [
mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:09 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: capturing e-mail text strings to http posting
Thanks for the advice J|rge,
Scripting IE could be an option however I've been looking in the standard
additions, I think it may be possible to script an http posting using the
Internet suite. If I have no luck here I'll probably script IE as you have
suggested, I just wanted to uses as few apps as possible to keep thing
stable and quick, that's the theory anyhow.
Cheers
Paul
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From: Juergen Schell <email@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:19:21 +0200
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To: <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: capturing e-mail text strings to http posting
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I just fought against a similar problem to get data transferred to a
server.
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The following code works with IE, it should work with other browsers
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in a similar fashion.
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It does not fill in a form actually displayed on screen but just
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sends the data by html post method.
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Note that the data need to be URL encoded. If anything like space, =,
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&, return, :, # etc appears, it needs to be replaced by the
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"%hexnumber" form, e.g. for a space.
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J|rgen
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---
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property theURL : "http://www.test.com/test.php";
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set textA to "somestring"
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set textB to "otherstring"
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tell application "Internet Explorer"
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OpenURL theURL FormData "Value1=" & textA & "&Value2=" & textB
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end tell
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---
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At 12:30 Uhr +0100 23.09.2002, Paul Tuckey wrote:
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> Hi List
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> Im after a little bit of advice here, I need to grab 2 text strings from
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> the body of an e-mail and place these into an http posting. Example the
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> e-mail body may look something like this...
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> Thanks for your order
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> Your Purchase account ID: 77234567
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> Your cart ID: Cart12991
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> Purchase transaction ID: Trans1542
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> Generated at: 23 Sep 2002 09:51:58 GMT
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> Sale value: GBP 42.39
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> Description: Game 7
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> Tel:+4401234567890
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> Shopper IP address: 192.168.1.11
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> ---
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> I want to grab "Game 7" and "+4401234567890" from the body, put it into
this
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> from action which is automatically submitted to the http server.
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> ---
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> <form action="http://www.myserver.pl"; method="POST">
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> <input type="hidden" name="Tel" value="+4401234567890">
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> <input type="hidden" name="Action" value="subscribe">
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> <input type="hidden" name="Gameid" value="Game 7">
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> <input type="submit" value="Submit Form">
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> </form>
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> ---
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> I'm sure I can script Entourage to to loop through the messages in a
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> particular folder and grab the text strings I need but I'm not sure how
to
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> go about scripting the http posting once I have placed my variables in my
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> http form.
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> Also is using an e-mail client the best way of approaching this or are
there
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> any scripting additions that may suffice. I also know FileMaker pro
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> reasonably well, would scripting FMP to achieve the above be a good idea
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> given that good performance is required.
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> Any advice on how best to approach this is much appreciated.
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> Paul Tuckey
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J|rgen Schell
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