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Top Forums Programming Building app. to send data to website Post 302670597 by cic on Thursday 12th of July 2012 09:04:54 AM
Old 07-12-2012
I wouldnt have thought GUI design was a strong point for Perl?
What about portability of the application to users Windows environment?

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Originally Posted by Corona688
It's really difficult to say without seeing what you're dealing with. The raw contents of the webpage and their login methods may make or break whatever method you try.
The webpage is built in ASP.
Also the different pages of the web site does not change the URL in Address bar. I think this could be an issue.

At main page. There is two login text fields. I assume app can simply send data to these two fields directly, without any need for backend DB coding.

The site is poorly designed with many unnecessary text fields when submitting a request. In the app I will have fields for only necessary data.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Perl + WWW::Mechanize is sufficient in most cases like that.
I wouldnt have thought GUI design was a strong point for Perl?

What about portability of the application to users Windows environment? Is this an issue with Perl applications? These may sound like daft questions but I have little experience with Perl.
 

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WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Keep(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation	      WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Keep(3pm)

NAME
WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Keep - Leave an HTML field alone SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller; use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Keep; my $f = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller->new(); # Leave the login field untouched my $login = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Keep->new( 'login' ); $f->add_value( login => $login ); # Alternatively take the following shorthand, which adds the # field to the list as well : my $sessionid = $f->add_filler( session => 'Keep' ); DESCRIPTION
This class provides a way to keep a value in an HTML field. new NAME Creates a new value which will correspond to the HTML field "NAME". name [NEWNAME] Gets and sets the name of the HTML field this value corresponds to. value FIELD Returns whatever "FIELD-"value()> returns. EXPORT None by default. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (C) 2002,2003 Max Maischein AUTHOR
Max Maischein, <corion@cpan.org> Please contact me if you find bugs or otherwise improve the module. More tests are also very welcome ! SEE ALSO
WWW::Mechanize,WWW::Mechanize::Shell, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller,WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Fixed, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Default, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Random, WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Interactive perl v5.10.1 2009-04-24 WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::Value::Keep(3pm)
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