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Back End Web Browser Interaction?

May 13th, 2009

Alright so I'm working with a program that works with various email programs and I'd like to use it to automate the login process. I know I can open a browser using
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "https://various.email.com/", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
but how would I actually parse the login/password strings into the text fields of the browser?

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Re: Back End Web Browser Interaction?

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May 13th, 2009

Just an alternative on the way to open browsers:

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String^ myURL = "http://www.google.com";
 
System::Diagnostics::Process::Start("iexplore.exe", myURL );
String^ myURL = "http://www.google.com";

System::Diagnostics::Process::Start("iexplore.exe", myURL );

I beleive what you have to do is to extract the login and password as two strings and then create a new string (myURL) like this:

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String^ myURL = "http://www.google.com";
String^ mylogin = "abc";
String^ myPassword = "def"
 
//New myURL
myURL = myURL + "/" + myUser + "/" + myPassword;
String^ myURL = "http://www.google.com";
String^ mylogin = "abc";
String^ myPassword = "def"

//New myURL
myURL = myURL + "/" + myUser + "/" + myPassword;

Hope it helps!

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Originally Posted by spectrum6125

Alright so I'm working with a program that works with various email programs and I'd like to use it to automate the login process. I know I can open a browser using
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "https://various.email.com/", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
but how would I actually parse the login/password strings into the text fields of the browser?

Last edited by Liszt; May 13th, 2009 at 10:39 pm.

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Re: Back End Web Browser Interaction?

May 13th, 2009

Was any of that C++, Liszt?

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Re: Back End Web Browser Interaction?

May 14th, 2009

Thank you for the input Liszt but parsing the login information into the URL won't work for me, what I essentially need is a way to automate the entering of text into the login/password text fields.

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Re: Back End Web Browser Interaction?

May 14th, 2009

Well when the page loads up. You SHOULD CHECK OUT THE source and see for the names of the forms.

then you can write something like this

"http://www.some.some/login.php?FORMNAME1=Username&FORMNAME2=Password

Replace formname with the actual form names in the source and User Name and password with your user names