Re: Auto fill out a web page

I recently had to do something like this.

I found it useful to use TcpCatcher (free at http://www.tcpcatcher.org)
while manually accessing the website in a browser -- it shows what the
website sends you and what the browser sends back. (There are other
tools, but TcpCatcher worked well for me.)

Then I wrote a C socket program to emulate the browser controlling the
website. It could be written in other languages, but we're familiar with C.

The process is sometimes called "web automation".

--Dave

On 12/28/2010 08:29 AM, Jack Tucky wrote:

I'd like to control a webpage from my Iseries. I have all the data I need
in my application but I need people to go on the customers website to enter
it.

It's a pretty basic website, enter user id and password, click logon, select
some info from a drop down, enter a date, select a radio button, click
continue, click confirm, done.

I've used Geturi before to retrieve data but I don't see how I can fill in
data. I've tried setting the values in the URL but it doesn't work.

Thanks