"Dave B" <da****@earthlink.net> wrote
That is true but we are not doing a search. The form comes up you fill it
in, click submit, it writes to a database and redirects you to a page where
you can click to enter another, return to a previous paged or logout. It
does not show the values being passed to the database.
You indicated that one field did work:
That works for a single field but we are needing to fill in 5 fields
Does it actually work, or were you just saying that?
If the URL you are directed to (after pressing Submit) accepts the format,
then all 5 fields should work as well as the one did.
It would help to look at the page you press Submit on, is it available on
the net? The source of that page would clue you in on the names of the fields,
which need not be what you see listed on the page nor do they need to be
listed in the URL. It is not just search pages that use that format, it is
standard URL notation.
For another example, go to:
http://babel.altavista.com/tr
Type in: This was translated for Dave B
Select: English to German
Then press the Translate button. Take note you are redirected to the
new page with the translated text. The point I am making is that you do
not need to fill out the page and then press the Translate button. That
is the type of things you say you need to do, you need to fill out a form
and press a button. What I am saying that you can simply submit a
formatted URL and to the server, it will look like you did fill out the form.
As an example, this link does just that:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babel...ave+B&lp=en_de
When you pressed the Translate button, you do not see a URL in your
Address bar like this, you only see:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
But the result is the same, is it not?
Other methods involve significantly more programming than simply building
and submitting URLs from data in your file. If you can go this route, then that
will be the easiest. That is why it is the first method I have suggested. It
may be the server does not respond in normal fashion (as it should), in
which case you may have to programmatically download the form, fill it out
and resubmit it. But as I said that is going to be more work than the method
above....
LFS
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