Fill a web form with data from a file

surferdude · Post by **surferdude** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:41 am

Could I get some clues how to complete a web page form with data from a (probably delimited) file? I thought there were some examples of this but I couldn't find any

I know how to open and focus on the page, I'm assuming I can tab between fields, but I'm missing how to read and output the values.

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:44 am

Here's a few things to get you started.....

This is a small section from the HELP in Macro Scheduler for HTTPRequest.

This demonstrates a POST operation, sending name=value pairs to the page:

Let>PostData=email=[email protected]&name=Joe Bloggs
HTTPRequest>http://www.someplace.com/someform.html, ... MLResponse

In the HTTPRequest line, the value of "PostData" is actually the variable %PostData% that was defined in the previous LET> line. If you have a delimited file with values, then you could make a loop to read a line at a time to build the PostData variable with matching value names.