Thanks again Zentara. I appreciate the help; the information you've provided will give me a big jump in getting this going.
Regards, Paul -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zentara Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 6:45 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Question on using http rather than ftp On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:08:41 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Paul King") wrote: > The sample scripts you provided will be quite helpful in >providing me with a place to start. I'm almost positive I won't be able >to provide the vendor with my own script to be invoked on their server. >Consequently, will I be able to call a script written in some arbitrary >language from the POST function provided they are using CGI? Sure. They will have to provide you with the URL of the cgi script that accepts the uploads. After that, it dosn't matter if they are using Perl, they will have to follow the CGI protocol, so your lwp-upload script will work. There are some possible pitfalls though, like they may require you send in a couple of form fields along with the file, or they may want you to allow them to set a cookie first, or have javascript enabled, or some other stupid Microsoft trick to force you to use a Microsoft browser or system. But you won't know that until they give you they URL. A decent company would have a test URL setup for you to practice with, maybe ask them. If it gets too complex of an interaction, you will probably have to switch to WWW::Mechanize from LWP. Mechanize, will let you get around any obstacle, by exactly simulating the behavior of a real browser. Mechanize comes with a cookbook of examples, you can google for example scripts, or go to http://perlmonks.org and search their site for WWW::Mechanize. Such as: http://perlmonks.org?node_id=469979 http://perlmonks.org?node_id=521497 http://perlmonks.org?node_id=437928 If you do run into a problem, and need help with Mechanize, you will get better answers at http://perlmonks.org signup, it's free See also this tutorial: http://www.developer.com/lang/other/article.php/10942_3454041_2 Goodluck, zentara -- I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. http://zentara.net/japh.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
