On 12/12/13 18:49, Joel Goldstick wrote:

Your subject 'screen scraping' is puzzling.  It seems what you are
asking is how to make your program act like a user filling out a form.
Or i completely misunderstood.

That's right. Screen scraping is a fairly standard
corporate term for an application that drives a
system robotically, simulating a human user.

Originally by 'scraping' data out of a GUI form
but more generally now by parsing and resubmitting
web pages.


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