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[steveiwonder]

Would anyone be able to help me here,?
for example,
Someone wants to write a script to log you into ummm... Yahoo or something
can you tell AHK to send keystrokes to a certain edit box on there website?
Like
http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=www&.done=http://www.yahoo.com
You wanna send your Username to the Yahoo! ID box,
how can i send my username to that and that only

any idea's?

[Titan]

Since the ID box is auto-focused on load you can do something simple like sending the keys:

[steveiwonder]

Thats kinda what i needed but w/o using sleep, wondered if u could tell it to send to that edit box spacifically...? or is that not possible

[Titan]

Try:

[Chris]

[Titan]

[jazzyjas]

The thing is - I have tried to logon to other websites -
and I just can't get the focus on the login field!

I'd rather pass the whole uri to IE and tell autohotkey
to use the method post to send the data and
not the method get!

To be more precisely, let's assume I have a webside called
xyz.com. I am user:joe and have pwd:password.

I'd like to write sth. like
run, http://www.xyz.com/admin.php?user=joe&pwd=password&method=post
into autohotkey to avoid letting anybody see
my password!

The risk to loose the password by letting autohotkey type it
- is in my opinion too high! I tried so often and there are so
many possibilites of disturbance that my password was
written everywhere but not in the textbox.

I would prefer to avoid it somehow!

What do you think? Is there a possibility
to automate internet password logins
without ever showing up the password?

Greetings

JAZZYJAS.

[Chris]

It seems the key is to get the focus set to the right field/control so that the password will be masked when typed. In some browsers, you can improve the reliability of this by using the Find function to select a word that occurs right before the target field, and then Send {Tab} to set the focus.

There are also some posts on the forum about how to use a one-line javascript command, pasted into the address bar, to automate certain kinds of form actions.

[Payam]

This was a very important topic to me as well. I always wondered how some programs such as Roboform (www.roboform.com) which fills forms and passwords worked (guys any thoughts?).

Anyways, If you really want to do things "behind the scenes" and use a method spiders and other programs use:

http://curl.haxx.se/

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

I've spend a lot of time trying to get it to work for my needs and even had to hire a consultant - anyways, it works well without too much hassle UNLESS you need cookies involved - thats where it starts to get hard.

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However, if you don't need such a "professional" method, I use the Ctrl F (then type a search text preceeding the form you want to have focus) then hit {TAB} as Chris mentioned.



Good luck.

[Serenity]

Jazzyjas, you might find this thread of interest.
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[cornell2]

This is a big issue for me too .. I just cannot believe that Autokey doesn't too this (or at least it is not obvious).

For my use, I just want Autokey to bring me to a specific web page, and then go to the 3rd text-input field and paste something.

I am having a helluva time making it do this .. and cannot believe that it is this complex a task (where I either have to kludge it by doing a ctrl-F and search, or javascript).

Can anyone here set me straight?

Thanks

[Chris]

[cornell2]

[daonlyfreez]

Maybe you could try to parse the page first, get the existing elements on page thru JavaScript and then fill in the form fields as needed? This could all be done thru JavaScript...

You can access the elements by this kind of syntax:

document.forms[0].elements[0].value

More on elements on a web page
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