[8921] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Scritp's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Heaney)
Wed Aug 16 05:14:46 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 10:10:28 BST
From: heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com (Steve Heaney)
To: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
The www-talk list is really intended for "technical discussions for
those developing WWW software". Questions related to CGI scripts
should go to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi. Having said that,
I don't think what you're asking for can be done via CGI.
The simplest tool to use for "automating" client requests is the
W3C line mode browser[1], which can be invoked from a Unix shell script.
Alternatively, if you want to do more elaborate stuff, I've found the
Python scripting language [2] very useful.
Bear in mind that automating the retrieval implies that you are storing
your password somewhere for the program to retrieve - not a good idea!
Steve Heaney
Schlumberger Cambridge Research.
[1] http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/LineMode/Status.html
[2] http://www.python.org/
