OT: Web automation tools

[William James McEachran]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:40:38PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> 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.

No, I've got to get through the applets first, then navigate, the applets are
involved in authentication.  

Talked with the other side and it's possible that I'll get access to a non-java
version of their site ... so my problems may disappear.
-- 
Bill McEachran