[Wylug-help] Fw: Automate Web logins

[Idris Fulat]

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Smylers and James...My job is changing ALOT very soon so I'm not going to
have time to 'play' anymore. Thanks for both your replies but to be really
honest it was begining to feel a bit beyond me. Having said this I'm told
I'll be getting experience with some Unix boxes so you never what I'll be
doing!!
Smylers...
> > The login page I guess you're think of, however, ...
>
> Oh, I hadn't realized we were supposed to be playing guess-the-webpage.
> Is there a prize for whoever gets closest?

I work where James used to work so he knows more than I do about the login
page. I manage some of the linux things he set up here and to be honest if
it wasn't for him I would not have know hardly anything about Linux nor this
user group. (I've been dual booting at home and all sorts since...). Again
thanks for the replies.

Idris

PS.. just out of interest my VB code opens IE 'looks' for the login and
password fields, fills them in and then submits and then closes IE (its like
a background task without actually showing the IE window so the user
continues with their IE session). This then continues to happen every ten
minutes via the task schedular. The linux alternatives seem awfully
complicated from my point of view. Is it not possible for 'something' to
call mozilla 'look' for the fields and fill and submit. None of this hidden
ID and cookies etc. I know it seems like I'm asking just for the sake of it
but I really thought it would have been a much simpler process. I've
attached the VB code if you're interested.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Smylers" <Smylers at stripey.com>
To: <wylug-help at wylug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Fw: Automate Web logins


> James Holden writes:
>
> > The username and password need sending via a HTTP POST request, so you
> > could use 'lynx' to send the form data via it's -post_data option.
> >
> > The login page I guess you're think of, however, ...
>
> Oh, I hadn't realized we were supposed to be playing guess-the-webpage.
> Is there a prize for whoever gets closest?
>
> > has a unique number in it every time it's issued to nobble people
> > trying to do what you're trying to do.
> >
> > IIRC there's also a cookie involved.
>
> If you need to use post, a per-session hidden parameter, and a cookie,
> then it's almost certainly simpler to use WWW::Mechanize (possibly via
> HTTP::Recorder) than hooking all the bits together yourself.
>
> Smylers
>
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Dim ie As InternetExplorer

Private Sub Form_Load()
Set ie = New InternetExplorer
On Error GoTo IeErrorhandler
With ie
    .navigate "www.intra.leedslearning.net"
    Do Until .readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
        DoEvents
    Loop
    .document.All("username").Value = "XXXXXX"
    .document.All("password").Value = "XXXXX"
    .Visible = False
    For n = 0 To .document.Forms("loginform").length - 1
        If .document.Forms("loginform").Item(n).Value = "Login" Then
            .document.Forms("loginform").Item(n).Click
        End If
    Next
End With
    ie.Quit
IeErrorhandler:
Resume Next
    Form1.Hide
    Set Form1 = Nothing
    End
End Sub
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