On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Q Zhu <zhuq1_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having some trouble figuring out how to submit to a POST form that
> requires one to click a "submit' button. The HTML source for the submit
> button part looks like this:
>
> <INPUT type=submit value=Submit class="goInputHome">
>
> This is not quite the same as in the curl tutorial on this subject, where
> their 'typical' submit button is coded in the html source like:
>
> <INPUT name=ding value="submit">
>
> where one could use the -d option with "ding=submit" to submit the form.
> But with the above type of submit button, I can't seem to figure out how to
> do it with the -d option because there's no 'name' tag.
>

In my experience, any input field with no name is discarded - it just
doesn't get sent. The reason for having it would simply be to put a button
on the page that triggers the submit cycle. If the server cared about the
value of the submit button, there would be a name.

Ralph Mitchell

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Received on 2008-12-20