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[Rob Notwicz]

Thanks Anirudh! You wouldn't happen to know of any good sites/examples
showing this kind of thing in action?

On 11/7/06, Anirudh Zala <arzala at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 05:59, Rob Notwicz wrote:
> > Can a php script be made to perform actions on a site, such as: open it,
> > fill in a form, click a link/button, and receive the page returned? I've
> > been having problems getting cURL to extract a site behind an https
> login
> > and I was wondering if there was a more direct method.
> >
> > thanks,
> >    Rob
>
> Yes, using PHP functions like "fsockopen, fputs, fgets" etc. you can do
> so.
> But this method might have certain limitations of accessing pages. For
> example, pages being submitted using JS might not work with this method.
>
> It is not to be assumed that whatever acctions is performed using browser,
> can
> also be done exactly using these methods.
>
> Thanks
>
> Zala
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