Bizarro Question of the month...

[andu]

--On Saturday, August 31, 2002 15:57:27 -0400 Richard MacLemale 
<rmaclema at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> OK, time for my bizarro question for this month.
>
> HP laser printers have built-in web servers so that you can configure them
> via a web browser.  On our network we've got about 30 HP laser printers.
> 4 times a year our district office asks us for page counts... Which means
> I have to go to each printer's "web page" and grab the page count.  You
> can probably see where I'm going with this...
>
> I thought I'd use MetaCard to grab each printer's web page and then parse
> through it to grab the page count.  But it won't work, because the "web
> page" is actually generated via JavaScript.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how I could make this work?  I figured it
> couldn't hurt to ask.

If I understand correctly, the server on the printer generates pages 
dynamically in which case you should still be able to make a request (get 
or post) from MC and get something, even if that something is not html and 
find your numbers in it somewhere.

>
>
> --
> :)
> Richard MacLemale
> Network Administrator
> J. W. Mitchell High School
>
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Regards, Andu Novac