[REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re:(3)
Hi Stefan! I would rather use the rebol proxy server (proxy.r) from rebol.com library to capture all the outgoing data. It is a very useful script. Give it a try. Joshy - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 June, 2000 3:44 PM Subject: [REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re:(2) Hi, uhm, I'll try to explain what I want to do. The site I'm looking at is a company that sell DVD movies. They have a function to search for movies. I want to be able to make that search, not by going to their homepage and typing in the form below, but just to enter an URL (or send an URL from a Rebol script actually), and then parse the returned page to get the info I want. The problem is that I don't know the syntax of the URL being sent (if it's possible to use an URL). IE. one of their links show something like: http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?category=Horror if I press that link I get a list of all the horror movies. However, when it comes to the search form, I'm unable to figure out what the URL should look like. I've tried for example: http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?title=Scream However, this isn't working, and I'd like to know what the info being sent to their script look like, so I can reproduce it in my Rebol script. As I see it, there's only thing I can do. Learn what all those ? = etc. mean in a form posted URL and use trial and error... Or if I can capture the info sent from the form somehow to read and be able to reproduce it from a script. file://Regards Stefan Falk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 7 juni 2000 20:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re: Hey Stefan, I dont quite understand what your trying to do, but I will try to give you some information you may be able to use anyways. As you should already know HTTP servers take information from forms and pass it to a CGI program using POST or GET. The GET request can pass data via URL encoding such as "www.foobar.com/test.cgi?test=on". With POST, your data is sent additionally, not as part of a URL. This prevents your data from being viewed or entered as a URL, and as I understand was inpart the reason they came up with POST. Hope I helped, --Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, this might not be Rebol related directly, but since I intend to use the info for a rebol script I guess it's ok. Anyways, here we go. There's a page with a search form, and I'd like to know what the POSTed URL look like. The source goes something like this: FORM ACTION="search.asp" method=post target="rightframe" NAME=frmSearch TD width=15 height=1/TD TDINPUT TYPE="text" SIZE=11 NAME=word/TD TR TD/TDTDINPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search" VALUE="actor" CHECKED IMG SRC="Actor.gif"/TD /TR TD/TDTDINPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search" VALUE="title" IMG SRC="title.gif"INPUT TYPE=image SRC="search.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Search"/TD /FORM Of course, I tried to (naive as I am), to post an url that has the form data like this: http://blaaah.com/search.asp?title=blaaah but this isn't the right one. Is there any way I can instead of performing the search just see the url? Any info appreciated file://Regards Stefan
[REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re:(3)
I'd like to help, but I can't see that the company sells DVD movies at all. I can't find that they have a search page either. I tried to the url you supplied, but it just isn't there for me. Regardless, I would be interested in how you go about parsing the return page when you get to that part. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 3:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re:(2) Hi, uhm, I'll try to explain what I want to do. The site I'm looking at is a company that sell DVD movies. They have a function to search for movies. I want to be able to make that search, not by going to their homepage and typing in the form below, but just to enter an URL (or send an URL from a Rebol script actually), and then parse the returned page to get the info I want. The problem is that I don't know the syntax of the URL being sent (if it's possible to use an URL). IE. one of their links show something like: http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?category=Horror if I press that link I get a list of all the horror movies. However, when it comes to the search form, I'm unable to figure out what the URL should look like. I've tried for example: http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?title=Scream However, this isn't working, and I'd like to know what the info being sent to their script look like, so I can reproduce it in my Rebol script. As I see it, there's only thing I can do. Learn what all those ? = etc. mean in a form posted URL and use trial and error... Or if I can capture the info sent from the form somehow to read and be able to reproduce it from a script. //Regards Stefan Falk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 7 juni 2000 20:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re: Hey Stefan, I dont quite understand what your trying to do, but I will try to give you some information you may be able to use anyways. As you should already know HTTP servers take information from forms and pass it to a CGI program using POST or GET. The GET request can pass data via URL encoding such as "www.foobar.com/test.cgi?test=on". With POST, your data is sent additionally, not as part of a URL. This prevents your data from being viewed or entered as a URL, and as I understand was inpart the reason they came up with POST. Hope I helped, --Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, this might not be Rebol related directly, but since I intend to use the info for a rebol script I guess it's ok. Anyways, here we go. There's a page with a search form, and I'd like to know what the POSTed URL look like. The source goes something like this: FORM ACTION="search.asp" method=post target="rightframe" NAME=frmSearch TD width=15 height=1/TD TDINPUT TYPE="text" SIZE=11 NAME=word/TD TR TD/TDTDINPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search" VALUE="actor" CHECKED IMG SRC="Actor.gif"/TD /TR TD/TDTDINPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search" VALUE="title" IMG SRC="title.gif"INPUT TYPE=image SRC="search.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Search"/TD /FORM Of course, I tried to (naive as I am), to post an url that has the form data like this: http://blaaah.com/search.asp?title=blaaah but this isn't the right one. Is there any way I can instead of performing the search just see the url? Any info appreciated //Regards Stefan
[REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re:(3)
Maybe this will help http://www.rebol.cz/~rebol/cgi/ At 09:44 AM 6/8/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi, uhm, I'll try to explain what I want to do. The site I'm looking at is a company that sell DVD movies. They have a function to search for movies. I want to be able to make that search, not by going to their homepage and typing in the form below, but just to enter an URL (or send an URL from a Rebol script actually), and then parse the returned page to get the info I want. The problem is that I don't know the syntax of the URL being sent (if it's possible to use an URL). IE. one of their links show something like: http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?category=Horror if I press that link I get a list of all the horror movies. However, when it comes to the search form, I'm unable to figure out what the URL should look like. I've tried for example: http://www.dvdshop.com/dvdsearch.asp?title=Scream However, this isn't working, and I'd like to know what the info being sent to their script look like, so I can reproduce it in my Rebol script. As I see it, there's only thing I can do. Learn what all those ? = etc. mean in a form posted URL and use trial and error... Or if I can capture the info sent from the form somehow to read and be able to reproduce it from a script. //Regards Stefan Falk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: den 7 juni 2000 20:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Getting an URL from a form Re: Hey Stefan, I dont quite understand what your trying to do, but I will try to give you some information you may be able to use anyways. As you should already know HTTP servers take information from forms and pass it to a CGI program using POST or GET. The GET request can pass data via URL encoding such as "www.foobar.com/test.cgi?test=on". With POST, your data is sent additionally, not as part of a URL. This prevents your data from being viewed or entered as a URL, and as I understand was inpart the reason they came up with POST. Hope I helped, --Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, this might not be Rebol related directly, but since I intend to use the info for a rebol script I guess it's ok. Anyways, here we go. There's a page with a search form, and I'd like to know what the POSTed URL look like. The source goes something like this: FORM ACTION="search.asp" method=post target="rightframe" NAME=frmSearch TD width=15 height=1/TD TDINPUT TYPE="text" SIZE=11 NAME=word/TD TR TD/TDTDINPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search" VALUE="actor" CHECKED IMG SRC="Actor.gif"/TD /TR TD/TDTDINPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="search" VALUE="title" IMG SRC="title.gif"INPUT TYPE=image SRC="search.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Search"/TD /FORM Of course, I tried to (naive as I am), to post an url that has the form data like this: http://blaaah.com/search.asp?title=blaaah but this isn't the right one. Is there any way I can instead of performing the search just see the url? Any info appreciated //Regards Stefan
