david oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have created a script providing the pin # and the message (which is > no problem) but HOW do I pass this information back to MCI to get it > processed if I'm not using a web based browser to fill in the message > fields. Is this something that I am over looking the obvious - I hope > so...
Two ideas; both depend on non-interactive ways to call lynx and have it send form data. Something like: (sorry about the long line) lynx -dump "http://www.mci.com/cgi-bin/sendpage.cgi?pin=234567&textMessage=this%20is%20a%20test%0D%0Asecond%20line.%0D%0A"; Will probably work. Either that, or this little perl script that calls lynx (there are probably Perl modules that'll do this for you, but I couldn't find them). #!/usr/bin/perl use URI::Escape; ($pin, $message) = @ARGV; open(LYNXOUT, "|lynx -post_data http://www.mci.com/cgi-bin/sendpage.cgi";); print LYNXOUT 'pin=', uri_escape($pin), '&textMessage=', uri_escape($message); The difference between the two is that the long lynx line issues a GET request to the host, while the perl script has lynx issuing a POST request. The form as MCI has it causes the browser to issue a POST command, though it shouldn't make any difference to the cgi program. If you decide that you can use a get request, you may consider using wget instead of lynx; I think it would be faster for you: wget -O - "http://www.mci.com/blahblahblah"; All these commands will produce as output whatever the mci cgi script spits back to the browser, so you may want to redirect output to /dev/null. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
