hey all,

I've got a data retrieval problem - I need to get data from a secure
website (ie: https) which has forms using javascript.

What base technology can I use to do this? Will LWP suffice?

I can't believe this isn't a FAQ - I searched up and down for this,
without luck. Is there an easy workaround around javascript?

Ed

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Edward Peschko wrote:

> hey all,
>
> I've got a data retrieval problem - I need to get data from a secure
> website (ie: https) which has forms using javascript.
>
> What base technology can I use to do this? Will LWP suffice?
>
> I can't believe this isn't a FAQ - I searched up and down for this,
> without luck. Is there an easy workaround around javascript?
[...]

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/GeneralFAQ.html

the bit on "Embedded script is messing up my web-scraping. What do I do?"
applies just as much to Perl as to Python (with minor translation...).


John