OT: Perl and Javascript

Morbus Iff morbus at disobey.com
Tue Jun 10 16:24:43 EDT 2003


 >Since we seem to have an abundance of Perl experts today, I have a
 >perplexing problem... I am trying to write a script that logs into a
 >website. The problem that I am running into is that the website requires
 >javascript. If the site detects that the "browser" doesn't support
 >javascript, then it loads the login form as an "unmodifiable form text
 >field" (as reported by lynx). Does anyone know a way around this?

If the login is authenticated with javascript (?!!), then you're screwed. 
What web site is it? Your best bet is to find out what the javascript is 
exactly doing.


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