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  • ynotssor
    #1

    curl javascript form completion

    Hello, can someone please tell me the correct way to use "curl" to complete
    an online form? I am trying to eventually retrieve my account balance via
    a cron job that will email me the parsed output of the web page that gets
    returned from the curl form completion.

    The page I am trying to access is https://retire.hartfordlife.com/index.html
    and the html block that contains the form is:

    <form method="post" name="form1"
    action="https://retire.hartford life.com/HartfordOnline/Login"><input
    type="hidden" name="target" value="MultiRol e" /> <table width="100%"
    border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#e2e9f 1">
    <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><fo nt color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
    sans-serif" size="3"><stron g><font size="2">Hartfo rd<em>Online</em>
    Login</font></strong></font></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td nowrap><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
    size="2">User
    ID</font></td> <td><input type="text" size="18" name="user" tabindex="1"
    value=""/></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
    size="2">PIN</font></td> <td><input type="password" size="18"
    tabindex="2"
    name="password" value=""/></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
    bgcolor="#e2e9f 1">
    <tr>
    <td nowrap><a tabindex="4"
    href="https://retire.hartford life.com/HartfordOnline/ChallengePhrase "><fonts
    ize="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Forgot Your
    PIN?</font></a><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
    sans-serif"><br /><a tabindex="5"

    href="HartfordO nline">https://retire.hartford life.com/Enrollment/Enroll">Har
    tfordOnline
    Enroll</a></font></td> <td><a tabindex="3"
    href="javascrip t:document.form s['form1'].submit()"><img src="imgs/lock.gif"
    width="13" height="16" border="0" title="ssl"><im g src="imgs/login.gif"
    width="39" height="16" border="0" /></a>
    </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </form>

    I don't know how to handle the
    _href="javascri pt:document.for ms['form1'].submit()"_ but what is failing to
    return the desired page is this command:

    /usr/bin/curl -A "Mozilla/4.0" -F user=myuser -F password=mypass wd \
    -F form1="https://retire.hartford life.com/HartfordOnline/Login" \
    -F target="MultiRo le" https://retire.hartfordlife.com/index.html \[color=blue]
    > results.html[/color]

    I would really, really appreciate any help that anyone can offer about the
    correct curl command to use to complete this form.

    Tags: curl javascript, javascript curl
    • Ben C
      #2
      Re: curl javascript form completion

      On 2006-04-06, ynotssor <ynotssor@examp le.net> wrote:[color=blue]
      > Hello, can someone please tell me the correct way to use "curl" to complete
      > an online form? I am trying to eventually retrieve my account balance via
      > a cron job that will email me the parsed output of the web page that gets
      > returned from the curl form completion.
      >
      > The page I am trying to access is https://retire.hartfordlife.com/index.html
      > and the html block that contains the form is:
      > [...]
      > I don't know how to handle the
      > _href="javascri pt:document.for ms['form1'].submit()"_ but what is failing to
      > return the desired page is this command:[/color]

      I don't think the fact that the form is submitted with a JavaScript call
      to the DOM rather than by the browser's builtin way of handling an HTML
      "submit" button makes any difference, fortunately. What the server gets
      sent is the same, and that's the point at which curl steps in.
      [color=blue]
      > /usr/bin/curl -A "Mozilla/4.0" -F user=myuser -F password=mypass wd \
      > -F form1="https://retire.hartford life.com/HartfordOnline/Login" \
      > -F target="MultiRo le" https://retire.hartfordlife.com/index.html \[color=green]
      > > results.html[/color]
      >
      > I would really, really appreciate any help that anyone can offer about the
      > correct curl command to use to complete this form.[/color]

      I think I got most of the way there with this:

      curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7" \
      -d "target=MultiRo le&user=bla&pas sword=bla" \
      https://retire.hartfordlife.com/HartfordOnline/Login > results.html

      Try it with your real username and password (where I've put "bla"). Your
      abbreviated user agent string may well be fine, but to be on the safe
      side I used exactly the same thing Firefox was using.

      You probably also will need to add the options "-a ./cookies -b
      ../cookies" because you may need cookies when it comes to actually
      interacting with the site properly.

      I think you want -d for the postdata, not -F. -F is for
      multipart/form-data data which is a different data format (usually used
      for file uploads). This form is just an urlencoded one, for which you
      use -d.

      A really good way of figuring these out is to use Firefox's "Tamper
      Data" extension, which lets you see exactly what it submitted to the
      server and exactly what came back.

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