posting to cgi

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• darthcode

  February 2005

  : Is there a perl module for posting to a page with cgi through a script? What I'm trying to do is fill out a form and submit it daily. Is there an easy way to do this?
  :
  
  
  LWP::UserAgent
  and
  Net::SSLeay
  
  Both are pretty straightforward to use too.
  
  Some example code for UserAgent is below:
  
  my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST','http://www.xxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/xxxxx.pl';
  my $query = "var1=value1&var2=value2"; #This must be a properly URL encoded string
  
  
  $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  $req->content($query);
  my $res = $ua->request($req);
  
  $res->content will hold the content of the response.
  $res->is_error will be true or false depending on whether or not an error occured.
  
  
• brtklt

  February 2005

  Big help. Thanks a bunch
  
  : : Is there a perl module for posting to a page with cgi through a script? What I'm trying to do is fill out a form and submit it daily. Is there an easy way to do this?
  : :
  :
  :
  : LWP::UserAgent
  : and
  : Net::SSLeay
  :
  : Both are pretty straightforward to use too.
  :
  : Some example code for UserAgent is below:
  :
  : my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  : my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST','http://www.xxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/xxxxx.pl';
  : my $query = "var1=value1&var2=value2"; #This must be a properly URL encoded string
  :
  :
  : $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  : $req->content($query);
  : my $res = $ua->request($req);
  :
  : $res->content will hold the content of the response.
  : $res->is_error will be true or false depending on whether or not an error occured.
  :
  :