I am feeling pretty stupid but despite perldoc FAQ, lwpcook (thanks Randal) and some
HTML tips (thanks Connie) I still can not make it work.
>Let us know if "perldoc lwpcook" has enough of all that. If not, any
>specific questions you bring up here will likely be answered.
What I am trying to do is to fill a form in a home page (actually, the home
page of cell phone company) to send a message to a cell phone.
[No, I don't intend to do flood cell phone users with unsolicited messages.
We are automating some procedures and it would be nice to get
some feedback via short messages that announce the success or failures of
script runs to the people in charge (even if they're outside the company).
I tried both the code for GET and for POST requests.
For example,
my $url = url("http://www.ctbcnet.com.br/portal/webcel.html";);
$url->query_form(msg => "Message.", min => "99777316", ...);
$content = get($url)
does not do anything sensible. And I don't know how to check for errors.
Details: the form in the web page "http://www.ctbcnet.com.br/portal/webcel.html";
has name "sms" and relevant fields "msg", "min", "pre1", "sender", "callback".
I don't understand what query_form() does: it sets the field values and submit
the form? Where it gets submitted?
A serious problem for me is that I am not being able to make tests:
the HTML form needs an 'action' attribute which specifies the file in the HTTP server
which handles the form data. Actually I don't have an easy way to
have a script or something like this in a HTTP server which can help me
to understand what's going on. I would appreciate complete examples: Perl
code, HTML with form, and some suggestion on a resource already in the
web that can process a very simple request and send the results back to me
(for example, my e-mail address). I know I am asking too much,
but the disposition of the people in this list is so fantastic that I have dared to
ask.
Maybe someone knows how I can send SMS messages directly from Perl
and I would love to know it too. And I would be still interested in knowing
how to automate HTML forms.
Thanks for your attention.
Best regards,
Adriano.
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