[NTLUG:Discuss] Scriptable, javascript-aware web browser OR virtual operator

[Carl Haddick]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:26:34PM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Carl Haddick wrote:
> >> Leroy Tennison wrote:
> >>
> >>  > I need to "screen scrape" a generated web page which is generated by
> >>  > filling in a form on a previous page. I haven't had any success finding
> >>  > a solution yet so I'm hoping someone here can help.
> >>


> Thank you, you indirectly provided something I was looking for: a site 
> that wanted a POST response.  I'm not sure I understand why you used 
> tcpdump rather than Etherreal/Wireshark other than to be able to copy 
> something out of it, am I missing something?
> 
> Also, thank you for the script, I'll analyze it over the weekend.
> 
> _______________________________________________

Ethereal would have worked fine, and would have saved a step.  Most of
the time I peek at lan traffic it's on a remote box, so I have a
knee-jerk reaction to tcpdump to a file, and then use Ethereal to view
the dump.

Just habit, but you're right - easier just to use Ethereal.

Carl