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Unknown Sender - 01 May 2005 02:27 GMT

Im sure there is a fairly simple answer to my problems using the LWP notation
but I cant seem to work it out. Im trying to send (1) input i.e. a list of
genes and (2) effectively press the "START" button on a website - http://
fatigo.bioinfo.cnio.es/ - remotely using the LWP notation. My problem is that
unlike my previous experience with screen scraping the URL of this website
doesnt change with a particular request containing the query within it. - any
help would be appreciated
thanks
Anthony

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Drieux - 01 May 2005 15:43 GMT

> Im sure there is a fairly simple answer to my problems
> using the LWP notation but I cant seem to work it out.
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> thanks
> Anthony

Have you started with actually looking at the 'html'
that is being generated for that URL? A part of the
trick here is that you will need to work out all of
the variables that will need to be checked in the
piece of javascript used to validate before submitting.

I presume that since you are talking about the 'query
string' not changing that you mean that the 'submit' is
a 'post' rather than a 'get' event - since one needs to
submit the query to the in the proper form back to the
server.

There is at least one hidden value that I noticed,
and that will need to be a part of your "post" information.

HTH.

ciao
drieux

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