offline Seatbelt99 wrote:
ok - I'm a noob and this is VERY useful to me, and amazing, I have been trying to learn cURL for a couple weeks now, and this I am already picking up since this morning. Excellent job.
That being said...
Thank you very much
offline Seatbelt99 wrote:
Could someone explain how I could log into a site using this.
I tried the
http://Username:Password@www.example.com that someone posted, and also tried copying the PostData that I got from tamper data when logging in, neither worked.
the thing is, that when using the username:password URL syntax it only works, when a site pop ups a little window (from browser, not a custom html with pictures or funky text etc) to with no extra text just asking for username and password login.
technically this is ususally realised thru .htaccess files on the server which need special login credentials to allow the access to particular data.
the much more common case, such as loging in to a webmail account or for example to autohotkey.com/forum is that u need to enter your username and your password in a webpage (compare the login in button here in forum to see an example).
now, to make httpQuery (or any other POST sending function) work in such cases u need to find out what the input fields are named. There are many attempts on how to do that.
either (if your know how to read HTML) you might peek the sourcecode of the page and have a look for the
Code:
<form action="someaddress"> ... </form>
tags and look for the <input> Tags (which is actually pretty easy) u just need to know how a form is build with html. input tags usually have an attribute "name" like <Input type=text name="firstname"> so an appropriate post would look like PostData:="firstname=whateveriliketosendhere".
There are also <TextArea name="whatever"></textarea> tags and <select name="something"><option value="x">text X</option></select> style tags. their usage is much the same ... they have a name which needs to be lefthand of the POSTdata parameter and a possible value. that is either the content of the <Option> tags if no Value attribute given or the value attribute. when u see an input type="hidden" these need to be in the Postdata aswell, an <input type=checkbox> only needs to be set when u want to be the value known as checked. in this case its either ON or Off. The Last thing (some webmaster do this to prevent user using automatisms) is that the <input type=submit> button may contain a name and a value. in this case it would get transmitted aswell.
maybe someone is willing to modify my given example for extracting formdata and release a version which also drops a proper AHK scrippet ready to use.
if this is too complicated (which i can understand, when u're not familiar with HTML) and u want to use a more UserInterface guided variant, there is a plugin called HttpFox for firefox, which allows to inspect which values (including Cookies and all neccessary POSTdatas) are send to your target webpage. it has a Tab calles POSTdata showing two rows - the name of the value and its content. (aright above the tabs is a list of which browser action to inspect - look for these saying type is POST) u can select all the rows and use it for your script.
when your using InternetExplorer, there might be a workaround ... save the webpage to your local harddisk, edit the sourcecode (the *.html file) and change in all <form> Tags method="post" to method="get".
Filling out the new modified form will bring show your an funny looking URL: (somewhat similar to this)
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/posting ... 1234567890
all the parts after the questionmark are the Data which would have been send via POST so just copy from questionmark on (exluding it) and put these into your postdata variable.
i hope this lil exscusrsion helps a bit
greets
DerRaphael
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