simulate a Users’ mouse actions

[chrissirhc]

Hi,

Is there anyway to simulate a Users’ mouse actions using coldfusion? The goal is the automatically complete a series of online forms that have text boxes, drop down menus, links and Submit buttons. Thanks

[chrissirhc]

The Link I need to click is called "Select Documents From Your Online Catalog" located at the bottom of the code.


[HTML]<script language="JavaS cript">

function setActionFields (hiddenActionVa lue) {
document.forms[0].routingAction. value = hiddenActionVal ue;
}

</script>

<form name="splashFor m" method="post" action="/SplashRouterAct ion.do">
<!-- this needs to be called here because of the warning pop ups at the bottom of this page (ref bug #9976) -->
<script language="javas cript">
makeFormsRelati ve();
</script>
<input type="hidden" name="routingAc tion" value="">

<<a href="javascrip t:document.form s[0].submit()" class="subheade rblack1" onclick="setAct ionFields('star tCatalogOrder') ;">Select Documents From Your Online Catalog</a><br><span class="subheade rblack1">Select documents from your company's online catalog and send to FedEx Kinko's for printing.</span> </td>
</form>[/HTML]

[acoder]

Since all the link does is submit the form, just make a HTTP request to the action page ("splashRouterA ction.do"). You will need to pass the hidden form field as a parameter using cfhttpparam. Set its value to "startCatalogOr der".

[chrissirhc]

Thanks for the clarity. Now the issue is when I use the secondary cfhttp request the site returns the login page. I added the username and password to the cfhttp statement but it did not work. Is this because the site is a https site?

!......My Code .....!

<cfhttp url="https://docstore.kinkos.com/tirekingdom/SplashRouterAction.do" username="mtfbwyswibltn" password="!Chrissirhc" method="post" resolveurl="yes" useragent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; FDM)" charset="utf-8">
    <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="keyword" value="startCatalogOrder">
</cfhttp>

[acoder]

I'm not sure if it would work if it's an https site.

It's about the session being maintained across pages to avoid login pages. Are all the pages from the same domain?

[chrissirhc]

Yes, all of the pages are on the same Domain.

[acoder]

When I get a bit of time, I'll test this out to see if it can work.

[chrissirhc]

Thanks for your time.

[acoder]

You're welcome.

In order to maintain session across cfhttp requests, you need to maintain the same cookies. To do that, you will need to parse the cookies out of the response header of the first cfhttp request result and use them as parameters in the rest of the requests. The values that you will need to pass will be CFID and CFTOKEN.

[chrissirhc]

I'll give it a shot. Thanks

[acoder]

You might find this link useful. A bit more advanced than what you need, but it should give you a good idea about how to solve it.