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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	CGI forms on the Web Dec 21^st, 2012 at 5:29pm	Print Post
	Erika had demonstrated using @HTTPPOSTHTML ( ) and @HTTPGETHTML ( ) commands to post data from withing Sesame and get the resultant data in Sesame. I have been trying unsuccessfully to use this commands effectively to fill out the web forms and get the data in Sesame. My question is: Is there someone out there using the above commands and successfully interacting with the web forms? I will appreciate your response as successful use by anyone of you will inspire me to continue trying and not giving up easily. Thanks.


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #1 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 6:20pm	Print Post
	Where are these web forms?

	- Hammer The plural of anecdote is not data.
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Carl Underwood Senior Member Members Offline Posts: 1351 Location: New Hampshire Joined: Mar 11^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #2 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 7:23pm	Print Post
	Here's a simple example of one of the ways I use @HTTPGetHTML to open a webpage. When I don't want to open a webpage, but only want to extract data from a page, I will use @RegexBetweenString on the vHTML variable to parse out what I want. (I don't think I've ever used @HTTPPostHTML.) Code vPath = "/?q=" + vAddress + "%20" + vCity + "%20" + vState + "%20" + vZip vHTML = @HTTPGetHTML(vServerName, vPath, "", 80) vHTML = @AsynchShell("http://" + vServerName + vPath)

	Carl Underwood CDU Computer Consulting LLC Epsom, New Hampshire
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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #3 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 8:18pm	Print Post
	Most of the form I have to sign in before I get to the form. That is another hurdle I have to overcome. But for the first step I was trying to use USPS.com to get the zipcode from the address. https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction_input using @HttpPostHtml ( ) to post to the form and @HttpGetHtml ( ) to get the sorce of the html page displaying results. Some how or the other I am getting empty string - (empty slate).� Thanks. Carl, can you tell me on what website your code will work? This is to see the concrete example. Have figured out a way to sign in automatically, that is using sbasic to authenticate? Thanks.


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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #4 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 8:44pm	Print Post
	Is there a way that I can attach here a .htm file of the form that I need to fill out?


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #5 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 8:54pm	Print Post
	The problem is https. These commands won't work with a secure form. You'll need to use cURL.

	- Hammer The plural of anecdote is not data.
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Carl Underwood Senior Member Members Offline Posts: 1351 Location: New Hampshire Joined: Mar 11^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #6 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 5:17am	Print Post
	I have a cURL solution that I've been using to retrieve ZIP codes from USPS.com. Do you want to see it?

	Carl Underwood CDU Computer Consulting LLC Epsom, New Hampshire
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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #7 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 7:31am	Print Post
	Yes Carl. That would be very useful. I believe, I will have to learn using cURL. Any suggestion about about reading material to introduce myself to cURL utility? Thanks for your help.


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Carl Underwood Senior Member Members Offline Posts: 1351 Location: New Hampshire Joined: Mar 11^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #8 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 4:41pm	Print Post
	I'm planning on submitting it for an Inside Sesame article soon, so I'll PM you with details.

	Carl Underwood CDU Computer Consulting LLC Epsom, New Hampshire
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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #9 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 5:59pm	Print Post
	Thanks Carl.


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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #10 - Dec 24^th, 2012 at 6:41am	Print Post
	I would be interested to see how cURL is used to authenticate and successfully submit SSL certificate in HTTPS webpage to even go to the page where data has to be posted in the form. Where do I get the SSL certificate? Where are they stored? As I understand, different browsers store them in different format and one might have to convert them in the acceptable format and then present it. I truly find this daunting!!


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The Cow YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 2530 Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: CGI forms on the Web Reply #11 - Dec 24^th, 2012 at 3:34pm	Print Post
	Unless you believe that the server is not who it is claiming to be, you can run cURL with the --insecure flag (-k) and it will bypass certificates and simply use SSL. http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

	Mark Lasersohn&&Programmer&&Lantica Software, LLC
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