Getting a URL form a "logged in" site

[Dennis Brown]

JB,

Thanks for your help with this.
I have crawled through these pages trying to get this login working.   
I think I am close.  When I use the following script in a login  
button, it does not return any errors in it.  If I change  
usemyusername to something that is not my user name, then it spits  
out the login page again.  So I would think that means it took my login:

ON mouseUp

     set the text of fld "Display Quotes" to URL ("http:// 
ldbauth.lycos.com/cgi-bin/mayaLogin?m_PR=4&m_CBURL=http:// 
www.quote.com/qc/default.aspx")

     put offset(quote&"Z"&quote&" value=",fld "Display Quotes")+11  
into zPointer
     put char zPointer to zPointer+9 of fld "Display Quotes" into zValue

     POST ("m_PR=4&m_CBURL=http://www.quote.com/qc/ 
default.aspx&m_CBERRURL=http://www.quote.com/qc/ 
default.aspx&m_LANG=1&Z="&zValue&"&m_AL=4&m_DL_FREE=1&m_WS=&m_U=usemyuse 
rname&m_P=usemypassword") to URL ("http://ldbauth.lycos.com/cgi-bin/ 
mayaLogin")

     put it into fld "Display Quotes" --what the post returns
END mouseUp

When I execute the following script in an UpdateQuotes button, it  
should give me the data I want, but it takes me back to a login page:

ON mouseUp
     set the text of fld "Display Quotes" to URL ("http:// 
www.quote.com/qc/downloads/download_ascii.aspx?FG=% 
7BB7002E03-75B6-42D3-891B-EED31E739C4D% 
7D&option=BidAsk&fileFormat=text&delimiter=tab")
END mouseUp

This means that I now need to accept and respond with cookies,  
because if I disable cookies in the browser, I can not log in there  
either.  So now I will tackle the other thread responses about  
cookies to see if I can figure those out --although I would not be  
shy about accepting any further help from the list.  This is all  
first time stuff for me.  The miracle is that Transcript and this  
list is even letting me get close --with my current level of  
ignorance.  I hope some others can learn a few things from this  
also. :-)

Thanks,
Dennis

On Dec 20, 2005, at 7:43 AM, jbv wrote:

> Dennis,
>
> I had a quick look at the webpage, and it seems like you'll have to  
> proceed in
> sections, since the html form is slightly more complex than  
> expected (among
> other things it has a parameter "Z" that seems to be a session  
> number) :
> - 1 use "get url" with the url you gave us to grab the original  
> html code of the
> log page
> - 2 parse that code to get the parameters + values of the "form1" form
> - then use the transcript POST command as follows to get the code  
> of the next
> html page (after loggin)
>   POST
> "m_PR=4&m_CBURL=http://www.quote.com/qc/downloads/ 
> default.aspx&m_CBERRURL=http://www.quote.com/qc/downloads/ 
> default.aspx&m_LANG=1&Z=1135080270&m_AL=4&m_DL_FREE=1&m_WS=&m_U=<your
> member name>&m_P=<your password>" to URL "http://ldbauth.lycos.com/ 
> cgi-bin/mayaLogin"
>
> I can't test any further as I'm not logged on this site (and don't  
> want to).
>
> Best,
> JB