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Hello Jack,
I'm sure GETURI can do this. (HTTPAPI can as well.) But I don't think
it's going to be as simple as you think. A browser is an extremely
sophisticated piece of software, and emulating what it does is not
always trivial.
As with everything in life, there are simple things and there are
not-so-simple things. Some web forms are dead simple, and some are not.
You need to look at the HTML of the web page to see how it works. The
<form> and <input> tags (etc) should describe the input, and the method
it's using to send it to the web page... if it's a simple case.
If it's not a simple case, there may be Javascript doing AJAX calls
and/or submitting the form based on various criteria... and that's where
things get ugly, because you'll need to understand exactly how that
Javascript works and what it actually submits to the web page.
Then you have the basic problem that the folks who run the site can
change the site on a whim. It can become extraordinarily time-consuming
to keep up with their changes. (Or not... depending on what they do and
how often they make changes, etc.)
So it might be dead simple, or it might be a major pain in the butt. You
have to look into it to understand.
If program-to-program communications (instead of user-to-program) are
desired, a web service is a much better alternative!
Another approach that helps deal with complex situations, when no web
service is available, et al, is to use a tool like Greasemonkey. It runs
in the browser itself, and can take advantage of all of the features of
the browser.
On 12/28/2010 10:29 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
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