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Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:26:07 -0300
From:      Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca>
To:        fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: software recommendation
Message-ID:  <4432F27F.1000701@greenmeadow.ca>
In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEBDHEAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEBDHEAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>

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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



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