Re: General question about what is possible re: AS driving JavaScript
Re: General question about what is possible re: AS driving JavaScript
- Subject: Re: General question about what is possible re: AS driving JavaScript
- From: Bill Planey <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:10:16 -0500
Malcolm,
After looking more carefully at what you wrote, what if the site is HTTPS?
Can anything be done to automate in that instance?
Thanks,
Bill
On 7/12/05 8:18 PM, "Malcolm Fitzgerald" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On 7/12/05 4:08 PM, "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> If you wish to view the source HTML of a form, then in most browsers
>>> you can
>>> position your pointer near to the place you are interested in and then
>>> right-click to 'View Frame Source' (not page source.)
>>>
>
>
> On 13/07/2005, at 8:10 AM, Bill Planey wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks! That revealed a bunch of stuff. Now the task is to figure out
>> whether:
>>
>> 1) I can actually set data from database sources to these fields and
>>
>> 2) submit the data for a result.
>
> You're trying to replicate the job a human has to do as if your
> computer were a human too, that may not be necessary.
>
> Try using an URL: look through the HTML code for the <form> tag, e.g.,
>
> <FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"
> ACTION="/cgi-bin/info.cgi/ChangeAddress" METHOD=POST>.
>
> You want the action element.
>
> /cgi-bin/info.cgi/ChangeAddress
>
> In this example the action element doesn't have a domain name included,
> some do. You need the domain name and the protocol. Most web
> transactions use HTTP but your real estate form may be on a secure
> server and use HTTPS.
>
> http://www.domain.com
> or
> https://www.domain.com
>
> Next you need a list of the field names. They'll all be in the HTML
> code. You'll use them to build key/values in this format,
> fieldName=value.
>
> location=Redfern
> state=NSW
>
> String the key/values together with an ampersand (&), e.g.
>
> location=Redfern&state=NSW
>
>
> To build the URL you concatenate (1) the domain name and (2) the action
> and (3) the field key/value pairs
>
> http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/info.cgi/ChangedAddress?
> street=33+Lilly+st&location=Redfern&state=NSW&postcode=2012
>
> This example URL is the equivalent of a web form with four fields:
> street, location, state and postcode. However, it's a URL, so you can
> paste it into the browser location bar and go to it. It's the same as
> filling out the form and pressing the submit button.
>
> Paste the URL that you build into the location bar and see if it works.
>
> Here's the applescript
>
> property theProtocol: "http://";
> property theDomain: "www.re.com"
> property theAction: "/cgi-bin/info.cgi/ChangeAddress"
>
>
> tell application "Filemaker Pro"
> tell layout "re web form"
> set theFieldNames to name of every field
> set theFieldValues to record 1
> end tell
> end tell
>
> set s to {}
> repeat with i from 1 to length of theFieldNames
> set end of s to item i of theFieldnames
> set end of s to item i of theFieldValues
> end
> set my text item delimiters to "&"
> set theURL to theProtocol & theDomain & (s as string)
>
> open location theURL
>
>
>
>
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