From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-06-19T22:17:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for Mechanize code for login

There's a much easier way ... buy Quicken :). Or reverse-engineer
Gnucash, if it works with your bank. :)

Alex Young wrote:
> Jim Freeze wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to automate collecting balances from my bank using
>> Mechanize.
>> I have set
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>>
>> require 'rubygems'
>> require 'mechanize'
>> require 'pp'
>>
>> username = "*****"
>> password = "****"
>>
>> site_url = "https://online.compassweb.com/servlet/compass/login.jsp"
>> agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
>> page = agent.get(site_url)
>> form = page.forms.first
>> form.fields.name("UserName").value = username
>> form.fields.name("Password").value = password
>> page = agent.submit(form, form.buttons.first)
>>
>> The page I get back has the following in it:
>>
>> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
>>     function setLocation(){
>>            
>> location.replace("/servlet/compass/inc/init/login-init.jsp");
>>         }
>>     window.onload=setLocation;
>> </SCRIPT>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> Can someone tell me what the process is for retrieving pages like
>> this are?
> If that's all you ever get back, I'd say to first do the login to get
> the cookies, check that you get what you're expecting back, then just
> directly agent.get that url.
>

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