OT: Perl and Javascript

pll at lanminds.com pll at lanminds.com
Tue Jun 10 16:31:06 EDT 2003


In a message dated: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:24:43 EDT
Morbus Iff said:

> >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.

Which shouldn't be too hard, since you should be able to View->Source
and see the java script lines to determine what's going on.


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