Posting to a web page
I'm trying to create a value added front end to a web site. What I need to do first is login to my account. I suspect the the entire site is created in the same style so once I get past logging in, I should be able to scrape the rest of the data I need to present in LiveCode locally. The login page is a simple html form with 4 fields: auth_vars[username] auth_vars[password] auth_vars[submit] Value=Login auth_vars[action] Value=login The form will be submitted to /login.php using POST My question is how can I create this login sequence and send it to login.php followed by the variables? I know with the GET method you have varname=value separated by commas. LiveCode will let me do something like: post myDataString to URL http://mywebsite.com/login.php; but I don't know how to format myDataString in order to have it accepted. Any help or pointers to web sites that might enlighten me are appreciated. len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Posting to a web page
Len you need to pair up the variable names with their values. Something like this: put username= URLencode(tUserName) into myDataString put password= URLencode(tPassword) after myDataString etc, etc. Then you can use the post command as you have it below. Cheers, Sarah On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Len Morgan len-mor...@crcom.net wrote: I'm trying to create a value added front end to a web site. What I need to do first is login to my account. I suspect the the entire site is created in the same style so once I get past logging in, I should be able to scrape the rest of the data I need to present in LiveCode locally. The login page is a simple html form with 4 fields: auth_vars[username] auth_vars[password] auth_vars[submit] Value=Login auth_vars[action] Value=login The form will be submitted to /login.php using POST My question is how can I create this login sequence and send it to login.php followed by the variables? I know with the GET method you have varname=value separated by commas. LiveCode will let me do something like: post myDataString to URL http://mywebsite.com/login.php; but I don't know how to format myDataString in order to have it accepted. Any help or pointers to web sites that might enlighten me are appreciated. len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Cheers, Sarah Rodeo discussion: http://alltiera.com/discussion/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Posting to a web page
So it's no different than a GET except that it doesn't go in the URL? That's easy! Thanks Sarah, len morgan On 10/16/2010 7:18 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: Len you need to pair up the variable names with their values. Something like this: put username= URLencode(tUserName) into myDataString put password= URLencode(tPassword) after myDataString etc, etc. Then you can use the post command as you have it below. Cheers, Sarah On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Len Morganlen-mor...@crcom.net wrote: I'm trying to create a value added front end to a web site. What I need to do first is login to my account. I suspect the the entire site is created in the same style so once I get past logging in, I should be able to scrape the rest of the data I need to present in LiveCode locally. The login page is a simple html form with 4 fields: auth_vars[username] auth_vars[password] auth_vars[submit] Value=Login auth_vars[action] Value=login The form will be submitted to /login.php using POST My question is how can I create this login sequence and send it to login.php followed by the variables? I know with the GET method you have varname=value separated by commas. LiveCode will let me do something like: post myDataString to URL http://mywebsite.com/login.php; but I don't know how to format myDataString in order to have it accepted. Any help or pointers to web sites that might enlighten me are appreciated. len morgan ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
