OT: Web automation tools

[Fairlight]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:20:04PM -0400, William James McEachran, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> Not screen scrapping ... navigating to a "Click here to download your file"
> button. I know, it's convaluted.  I used to get these files via 1200 bps 
> modem and a script.  I thought I could script this too, with cURL, but I
> can't use cURL because of java applets in the page.

Is the navigation dependant on using the applets?  If not, what does one
have to do with the other?  If so, someone's practising very, VERY poor web
design.

mark->