Need suggestion on creating web form-filling application
Need suggestion on creating web form-filling application
- Subject: Need suggestion on creating web form-filling application
- From: "Eric Lin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:41:41 -0700
I'm creating a Cocoa password manager that's capable of remember Internet
logins and automatically entering them into the browser. Besides logins, it
also can fill out form automatically. It's akin in function to Windows's
Roboform. However, I'm currently facing two problems:
1. I cannot make the application integrate with Mac browsers, namely Safari
and Firefox, such that my application would be able to detect form
submission events, and offer to remember login info when that happens.
2. How do can I fill out the form displayed in the browser, short of
creating synthethic keystrokes which don't work realiably. The ideal
solution is to be able to manipulate the DOM structure of the page directly.
RoboForm (Windows) works by acting as a IE Explorer Bar, and IE provides the
hooks for achieve the above goals (I think). I may be able to do something
similar with Firefox extensions. However, there seems to be no solution for
Safari at this point.
Thanks in advance,
Eric
p.s. In can you're wondering the purpose of this app when Keychain is
already built in, Keychain doesn't offer a use-able interface for managing
all the passwords it remembers, and it doesn't work for all websites.
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