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I'm stuck, and I know some of the gurus here can help.  What I want is to be able to have a PERL script make an automated post to a UBB forum. I've got it pretty much done, except for setting up the actual HTTP POST command. I've done GETs through a script before, but never a POST. So, my specific questions are: - What "pre processing" has to be done to the data before it can be posted? (For example, turning spaces into +'s.) Anyone have a code snippet?
- How do I actually make the data readable from STDIN on the receiving script? Pipe it? Open a socket and dump it?
Thanks all!
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Just use CGI.pm. It automatically deals with POST and GET. 1. I don't think you have to do anything special. Try it and see. 2. Blah  (with CGI.pm, you don't have to deal with that)
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Dave, I could be wrong, but doesn't CGI.pm just allow you to accept and generate POSTed forms? I actually want to do the POST (I.E. act as the web server, when a user hits submit on a web form). If CGI.pm does that, great! Any clues as to where to start?  Thanks
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I guess I misunderstood your question.  [ 12-29-2001 06:29 PM: Message edited by: Dave_L ]
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i think you mean...
the user click on "submit" of a feedback form and then the ubb generate a topic in a special forum...
one way is:
the "form"-script, generate the topic with the code of sub submit_new_topic.
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Not quite. Specifically, this script is going to intercept all e-mail sent to a specific address. It parses out the good bits, and then posts it to a specific forum. So the forum is then an online archive of the mailing list. The problem I'm having is automating the "posting" of the message contents. Cheers
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well... I dont know the answer, but you can look at lwp & other net modules for this...
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Cool, thanks, I'll check that out. (I hope a search for LWP will get me there... )
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LWWP or LWWWP can never remember which does what you want. theres some good docs on it if you seach google or cpan.
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CPAN shows: LWWWP: 0 hits LWWP: 0 hits LWP: 123 hits If I find the right one, I'll post it here for reference...
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I'm not sure what you guys are talking about.  There's a CPAN download libwww-perl-5.63.tar.gz which might be relevant. http://perldoc.com/ is also a good reference.
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[code][/code] Tada. Assemble the $query_string as if it was a real query string.
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Thanks CC! Now that's service!
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Ok, looks like it's the right idea. I'm now getting a response like this:
[code][/code]
Anyone have an idea how I can get something more meaningful from that? I've tried receiving it as a hash and pulling that apart, but it's the same result...
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I haven't used LWP::UserAgent, but according to the documentation, $response_code (as used above) is a reference to an HTTP::Response object.
Instead of printing $response_code, try printing $response_code->as_string(). See the documentation for HTTP::Response for other methods.
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quote:
Originally posted by joking-down:
i think you mean...
the user click on "submit" of a feedback form and then the ubb generate a topic in a special forum...
one way is:
the "form"-script, generate the topic with the code of sub submit_new_topic.
That's exactly what I myself need to do for a news submission script for a web site.
Can anyone give me a "sample" script I can just steal code from? I'm kind of in a hurry and I'm busy worrying about more complicated procedures with teh said Perl script.
Thanks.
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Dave_L,
That's it, I'm now getting proper messages back!
Thanks man!
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quote:
Originally posted by Mike Bobbitt:
Dave_L,
That's it, I'm now getting proper messages back!
Thanks man!
Could I get a copy of your code snippet for auto-thread creation via an external perl script, by any chance?
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