From: coosa <coosa76@...>
Date: 2007-03-09T06:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP.post_form issue

On Mar 9, 2:41 am, "coosa" <coos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm a newbie and have been looking for a solution regarding the
> following issue:
> I'm trying to get the results from the pagehttp://daftarj.spr.gov.my/daftarbi.aspand looking at the source of
> the
> page I have the following information:
>
> <form method="post" name="def" action="daftarbi.asp">
> .
> .
> .
> <INPUT name="txtIC" maxlength="12"><Input type=hidden name="txtSub">
> <INPUT type="button" name="Check" value="Check" onclick="submitted()">
> .
> .
> </form>
> There is no query string such as ...asp?id=blabla&something=blabla, so
> I
> need to simply pass the value I wish to post such as "0000059" into
> that
> hidden field and get the results bypassing the click on the button!
> Is this possible? I have tried a simple code and What didn't work is
> that it's not displaying the results based on the
> query as if it didn't submit the id for the hidden field in the input
> form!:
>
> require 'net/http'
> require 'uri'
> res = Net::HTTP.post_form URI.parse('http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/
> daftarbi.asp'),{"txtSub" => "0000059"}
[snippet]
I have also tried on "txtIC" instead of "txtSub" and both don't
display the resulst; is it perhaps because the POST called the
javascript function "Submitted()"?
[/snippet]
> case res
> when Net::HTTPSuccess, Net::HTTPRedirection
>   puts res.body
> else
>   res.error!
> end
>
> Kindly correct me If I'm wrong
>
> Appreciate any help
>
> regards