Re^5: capturing dynamic page

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi, different Anonymous monk here. (Either that, or I have a multiple personality disorder. I wouldn't count that out.)

No matter what page shows up in the browser, it says http://mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl

Your form is being submitted to myscript.pl in that address via the HTTP POST method. The method usually requires key-value pairs for the query part. You should be searching what the required key-value pairs (well, not strictly pairs) are (the name and value attributes in the form you are submitting), and then read the LWP documentation on how to make a POST request with the pairs.

The result of that POST request will be the HTTP response that contains the HTML page.

[cliffrubinmusic]

So, are you saying that one of the name, value pairs holds the entire source code of the web page?

I thought the name, value pairs were only inside the form, not the formatting or any of the other tags and commands inside the web page. I'm looking to get the whole enchilada like I could with get() in LWP, but through whatever pipe might be feeding the page to cgi.pm

please enlighten me

[davido]

You don't need the entire source of the web page to be included in the POST request. Your script generated the page, or linked to a static page. If your script did that, your script already has access to the page without asking for it to be passed back from the client-side.

Instead of telling us what you need, why don't you tell us what it is that you're doing. If you simply repeat back that you need the source of the page again, I give up. But if you can explain what you're doing to generate the page, and what you are trying to accomplish, we may have a chance of helping.

If you really need to know the page's source, you're going to have to keep track of it yourself.

[cliffrubinmusic]

Hi Dave;

What I'm trying to accomplish is error checking on the form, then return the form in its filled in state with error messages as to what needs correcting.

My problem is each pass through myscript.pl has a parameter that forces it to the next dynamic page. Also, even if I could redirect it, I already have code filling the fields with whatever was previously entered into the database..SO, I was trying to avoid rewriting the whole page with variables from the error messaging program.

Basically, I thought, if I could just grab the whole page in an array, if there are errors, I could reprint the page to the browser and add the error messages to the top of the page.

Any ideas?

Thanks again for yours and everyone who's trying to help me

[Anonymous Monk]

Honestly, just install a browser extension such as Live HTTP Headers, or a stand-alone program such as tcpdump/WireShark, make a few HTTP requests, and figure out how HTTP works.