Ask YC: Automating jobs
3 comments
The fact that you
a) don't know how to do this, and
b) don't have a choice over which browser to use
leads me to conclude that
a) your company has an IT department, and
b) you're not in it.
I suggest you get in touch with them, as although the task you wish is simple, they're not going to be happy being stuck supporting some code they didn't write, that one of their users "got off the internet somewhere."
you're just posting a form to the server. You can pretend to be IE in code and send the same HTTP traffic that the browser would send (use fiddler to watch the traffic and mimic it).
curl (http://curl.haxx.se/) is a utility which you can script to post to web forms.
Just use the --user-agent option to pretend to be IE so the server accepts the request.
Just use the --user-agent option to pretend to be IE so the server accepts the request.
Here is the procedure: 1. I go to a page in the intranet in IE. 2. I click on "Browse" and browse for a file to upload. The file is in this format: report_mmdd.xls. So, I choose a file for that particular day (mmdd). 3. I click "Send"