From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2007-09-20T10:24:02+09:00
Subject: Re: scraping web pages for cisco products

> With this method do I need to know the name of the form to use it? With
> mechanize I thought you had to look at the form name first before you
> could use it?

It helps to know someway to distinguish the form you're looking for
from the other forms on the page.  It would be possible to iterate
through all the forms on a page, entering some text into the text
fields in the form and submitting them; but, most of the time the
script would probably be in either the wrong form or the wrong field
in the right form (and, of course, there are other issues, e.g. forms
that require multiple fields to be edited).  I don't see anyway to
avoid customizing the code for each site (though, if you get a good
framework built the effort per site should decrease?).