OT: Web automation tools

[Walter Vaughan]

Bill McEachran wrote:

> Has anyone had experience scripting Internet Explorer on a site which 
> includes Java applets? What tools did you use?

No I haven't in fifteen years, but again you can use Visual Basic (at least you
could in the good old VB3 days) to automate just about anything.

Looks like the tools are better today.
http://www.openicon.com/FramesHowTo.html

I know people are writing all day to either a MySQL or MS-SQL from VB.net, so
then the last step would be writing the export and importing that into filePro
or using fpODBC and reading it directly.

I dunno, if you have to create a "bot" to get the info you need it seems like
you are treading close to violating some TOS either today or in the future.

The whole premise of SOA architectures is that it's supposed to fire properly
crafted XML in reponse to a properly crafted request.

The world is not a better place building a really gee-wiz cool screen scraper.

--
Walter