On 11/29/06, John Vorwald <john_vorwald_at_msn.com> wrote:
>
> Now, I'll have to think about coding this process. As I get ready to start
> programming the curl commands, can you tell me if there is a way to have
> curl return specific values from the web pages. It appears that the web
> addresses change every time I enter the login command lines and they time
> out reasonably quickly, and there are a few to links to track. I could
> write a some code to extract the info I need from curl web output, but are
> the output control options in curl?

Curl doesn't do anything with the page other than hand it to you.
There is, however, a very useful perl script that Daniel wrote, called
formfind. You can find it here:

   http://curl.haxx.se/docs/programs.html

Feed it a web page and it extracts any forms that might be present.

Ralph Mitchell
Received on 2006-11-30