From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 4 22:27:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A4816A41F for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD0D43D4C for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:27:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip04.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.20]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IX700JNBYD8RDI0@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:27:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip04.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:27:03 -0300 Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:26:07 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Message-id: <4432F27F.1000701@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: software recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:27:04 -0000 fbsd_user wrote: > I am looking for am application that will simulate a browser and > allow me to program responses to filling in forms from the internet > application the browser is accessing. > > I have read about this type of thing before and even seen it > mentioned on this list but at the time I had no interest in it. I > don't even know what this type of function is called so I can not do > a successful web search or ports search. I tried the words scraping, > session capture, and browser session simulation all with no luck. > > Does anyone know what this is called or the port name if there is > one? > > > _______________________________________________ > Try googling (can this really be a word :) ) browser automation name_of browser. I also tried automated website interaction tools but the results didn't seem as promising. YMMV -- Duane