- From: Steve Heaney <heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 10:10:28 BST
- To: www-talk@w3.org
The www-talk list is really intended for "technical discussions for those developing WWW software". Questions related to CGI scripts should go to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi. Having said that, I don't think what you're asking for can be done via CGI. The simplest tool to use for "automating" client requests is the W3C line mode browser[1], which can be invoked from a Unix shell script. Alternatively, if you want to do more elaborate stuff, I've found the Python scripting language [2] very useful. Bear in mind that automating the retrieval implies that you are storing your password somewhere for the program to retrieve - not a good idea! Steve Heaney Schlumberger Cambridge Research. [1] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/LineMode/Status.html [2] http://www.python.org/
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