RE: HTTPAPI POST How to click the Next button -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks for your reply Kevin,

I just need to check the insurance company to generate a list of
exceptions.

I did try using F12 in Firefox to try and find the field names but failed.

And I don't think wireshark is going to help me on https site as the data
will be encrypted.

Yes the acceptance of the T's and C's seems to be required the first time
then it may be saved as a cookie ... not sure.

At the rate I am going may be quicker to check them manually but that
takes all the fun out of it :-)

Don Brown

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11/04/2019
02:34:11 PM:

From: "Kevin Wright" <kevin.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"

<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: 11/04/2019 02:33 PM
Subject: RE: HTTPAPI POST How to click the Next button
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Don,

By going to the page in your browser of choice and then taking
whatever option there is to look at the source of the page, and hope
that you can recognise or find what you are looking for. And / or
maybe use Wireshark to see what the browser sends back when you
press the Next button after having entered the registration number.

I notice that on the first time you also need to agree with Ts & Cs
by simulating clicking on a check box, so add that to the
requirements. I am unsure whether the server would track your
subsequent attempts as part of the same "session" and thus remove
the requirement for the agree with Ts & Cs for subsequent iterations..

So you need to determine when the registration expires on around
4000 trailers (or maybe other vehicles).

Isn't there existing paperwork and / or a system with this info?

Or are you only now implementing it and trying to pick up the
existing data relatively free of data entry errors?

Regards,

Kevin Wright

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Don Brown
Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2019 2:14 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: HTTPAPI POST How to click the Next button

I remember reading somewhere, possibly a document by Scott Klemment that

HTTPAPI could imitate a person using a browser ... whish I could find

that

document.

I have a requirement to collect some information from a public web site
and no web services are available for the content I am looking to
retrieve.

The url is:

https://my.service.nsw.gov.au/MyServiceNSW/index#/rms/freeRegoCheck/details

You can then enter a vehicle registration number and click next. T3580

a valid registration number.

EXAMPLE4 uses a WebForm to post values to the page. How do I find the
name of the input for the Registration number on the web page ?

The how do I click the Next button from my program ?

Any comments, links or examples appreciated.

This is NOT a long term solution, I just need to get the details for

about

4000 records Once.

Thakns

Don Brown

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