Hi James,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:18:35 +0100
James Kerwin <jkerwin2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a Perl script that pulls in some information, generates an email,
> sends the email to a person and provides a URL to a WuFoo form. This URL
> contains the information to populate most fields in the form and could
> populate all of the fields.
> 
> What I don't know is how to submit the form. WuFoo uses POST to submit
> forms so I'm quietly confident I can't trigger that via the URL (happy to
> be surprised!).
> 
> The email generated by Perl is plain text so far as I can tell, using the
> JavaScript API that WuFoo has is out of the question (again, very happy to
> be told otherwise).
> 
> Does anybody have any idea how I could go about this? I have access to a
> server in which to host scripts on etc. and I'm not necessarily looking for
> a hand-holding solution, just a nudge in the right direction would be
> brilliant.
>

see http://perl-begin.org/uses/web-automation/ and
https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ/blob/master/FAQ.mdwn#how-can-i-write-code-to-perform-operations-on-web-sites-for-me-that-otherwise-should-be-done-manually

(short URL: https://is.gd/Tjo3KR .)

Regards,

        Shlomi
 
> Thanks,
> James



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