Download, Edit and Post HTTP Request?

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daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training

12 Years Ago

Hey guys, is have a bot at the moment which basicly uses the browser to get around things and its really slow as the process which i need doing is repetitive. i need a really quick method. Can any1 post a sample script where it

Downloads HTTP source to text file or temp text box
edits source strings as needed
post to server (submit)

thank you i would really really appreciate your help.

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thines01 401 Postaholic

12 Years Ago

Actually, you can use my example and substitute in the names of the variables (and the URI).
You can use just the function with the WebClient to do this particular submission.

I only put in both methods for reference.

Edited 12 Years Ago by thines01 because: omission

thines01 401 Postaholic

12 Years Ago

Going to the URL (that's listed in the action=) is the same as pressing the submit button.

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daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 1 · 2012-01-24T17:32:20+00:00

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training

12 Years Ago

no one help me?

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 2 · 2012-01-24T18:52:52+00:00

...edits source strings as needed ...post to server (submit)

What do you mean "Edits source strings"?
Do you mean you post modified HTML to a server?

...or are you saying you want to submit a form?

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 3 · 2012-01-24T18:58:13+00:00

yeah post HTML which is modified back to the server.

As at the moment im using the browser and its taking ages to load and then submit.

Any help fella?

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 4 · 2012-01-24T23:57:58+00:00

How are you submitting modified HTML back to the server using a browser?

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 5 · 2012-01-25T03:20:59+00:00

no sorry, what i mean is im using the browser to find elements to process the macro.

it would be great if i can download, edit and post the HTML page. Can you give me a sample of any website html please ?

Dave

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 6 · 2012-01-25T05:11:57+00:00

I'm not sure what to give you since I'm not really sure what you're doing.

Either you are:
1) Calling a web page to submit a populated form
or
2) Attempting to actually modify a web page

If you are attempting to fill a form and submit it, that CAN be fairly easy.

If option 2, there are a LOT of other things to consider such as FTP and permissions to write the modified HTML back to the server.

Do you have a sample web page?

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 7 · 2012-01-25T05:31:16+00:00

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training

12 Years Ago

Subit a form fella

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 8 · 2012-01-25T10:56:52+00:00

I made an example using a page called the Gangster Name Generator that returns a made-up Gangster name when you put in a regular name.

If you look at the source of this page, you will see a form that has three fields
gender, firstname and secondname -- each which must have a value:
The name being called from the submit form is in a variable called "action".
If you look for the action= key, you will see the name of the URI being called.

If you piece together that URI with a question-mark and the parameters prefixed with their variable names, you can generate the result using GET or POST

Here is a clickable sample using the name Fred Johnson

To get the result, open a WebClient stream to to the page and search for the result inside of the regular expression Regex("<b>.* '(.*)' .*</b>")

As an alternative, you can use the HttpWebResponse if you want to change the verb to POST

Here is an example of both methods:

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports System.Net

Module Module1
   Function GetGangsterNameG(ByVal strFirstName As String, ByVal strLastName As String, ByVal chrGender As Char) As String
      Dim strRetVal As String = ""
      Dim strUri As String =
         "http://www.quizopolis.com/gangster-name-generator.php?" &
         "gender=" & chrGender &
         "&firstname=" & strFirstName &
         "&secondname=" & strLastName
      Dim wc As New WebClient
      Dim fileWebIn As New StreamReader(wc.OpenRead(strUri))
      Dim rxGangsterName As New Regex("<b>(.* '.*' .*)</b>")
      Dim strData As String
      While Not fileWebIn.EndOfStream
         strData = fileWebIn.ReadLine()
         If (rxGangsterName.IsMatch(strData)) Then
            strRetVal = rxGangsterName.Match(strData).Groups(1).Value
         End If
      End While
      fileWebIn.Close()
      Return strRetVal
   End Function

   Function GetGangsterNameP(ByVal strFirstName As String, ByVal strLastName As String, ByVal chrGender As Char) As String
      Dim strRetVal As String = ""
      Dim strUri As String =
         "http://www.quizopolis.com/gangster-name-generator.php?" &
         "gender=" & chrGender &
         "&firstname=" & strFirstName &
         "&secondname=" & strLastName

      Dim req As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strUri)
      req.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Post
      Dim fileWebIn As New StreamReader(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())

      Dim rxGangsterName As New Regex("<b>(.* '.*' .*)</b>")
      Dim strData As String
      While Not fileWebIn.EndOfStream
         strData = fileWebIn.ReadLine()
         If (rxGangsterName.IsMatch(strData)) Then
            strRetVal = rxGangsterName.Match(strData).Groups(1).Value
         End If
      End While
      fileWebIn.Close()
      Return strRetVal
   End Function

   '
   Sub Main()
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameG("Fred", "Johnson", "M"(0)))
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameG("Jill", "Jackson", "F"(0)))
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameP("Sam", "Sneed", "M"(0)))
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameP("Shelly", "Sharp", "F"(0)))
   End Sub
End Module

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 9 · 2012-01-25T17:35:00+00:00

ah rite, i see that you are inserting variables in the URL, have you got a code that changes the HTML? or a certin value (form)

Tryd both of the codes and i couldn't see if they work or not

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 10 · 2012-01-25T18:16:35+00:00

The program (CGI, php, asp, etc) behind the form is only going to accept certain variables -- the three I mentioned.

What do mean changes the HTML? -- to what?

If you have another CGI to call with different variables, you can use either technique to send variables to it.

This code writes the output to the console.
If you can't see it, you can put a breakpoint on the "End Sub" and the program will pause there. You can also step through it with F-10 and watch each line in Main execute.

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 11 · 2012-01-25T21:37:39+00:00

al im wanting todo to is value of subject and message on that page to X and Post to their server so it submits it.

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 12 · 2012-01-25T21:45:06+00:00

OK, use the same technique with different variable names.
The name of the item you will be calling will be inside action=""

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 13 · 2012-01-25T21:56:36+00:00

I done understand what i need to edit, i see

"gender=" & chrGender &
"&firstname=" & strFirstName &
"&secondname=" & strLastName

but is this not to add onto the url? if so is this how it works on any http editing.

Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameG("Fred", "Johnson", "M"(0)))
Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameP("Sam", "Sneed", "M"(0)))
Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameP("Shelly", "Sharp", "F"(0)))

the above i userstand that they are the values of the 3 above, but as the above not many pages can add by php url?

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports System.Net
 
Module Module1
   Function GetGangsterNameG(ByVal strFirstName As String, ByVal strLastName As String, ByVal chrGender As Char) As String
      Dim strRetVal As String = ""
      Dim strUri As String =
         "http://www.quizopolis.com/gangster-name-generator.php?" &
         "gender=" & chrGender &
         "&firstname=" & strFirstName &
         "&secondname=" & strLastName
      Dim wc As New WebClient
      Dim fileWebIn As New StreamReader(wc.OpenRead(strUri))
      Dim rxGangsterName As New Regex("<b>(.* '.*' .*)</b>")
      Dim strData As String
      While Not fileWebIn.EndOfStream
         strData = fileWebIn.ReadLine()
         If (rxGangsterName.IsMatch(strData)) Then
            strRetVal = rxGangsterName.Match(strData).Groups(1).Value
         End If
      End While
      fileWebIn.Close()
      Return strRetVal
   End Function
 
   Function GetGangsterNameP(ByVal strFirstName As String, ByVal strLastName As String, ByVal chrGender As Char) As String
      Dim strRetVal As String = ""
      Dim strUri As String =
         "http://www.quizopolis.com/gangster-name-generator.php?" &
         "gender=" & chrGender &
         "&firstname=" & strFirstName &
         "&secondname=" & strLastName
 
      Dim req As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strUri)
      req.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Post
      Dim fileWebIn As New StreamReader(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
 
      Dim rxGangsterName As New Regex("<b>(.* '.*' .*)</b>")
      Dim strData As String
      While Not fileWebIn.EndOfStream
         strData = fileWebIn.ReadLine()
         If (rxGangsterName.IsMatch(strData)) Then
            strRetVal = rxGangsterName.Match(strData).Groups(1).Value
         End If
      End While
      fileWebIn.Close()
      Return strRetVal
   End Function
 
   '
   Sub Main()
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameG("Fred", "Johnson", "M"(0)))
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameG("Jill", "Jackson", "F"(0)))
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameP("Sam", "Sneed", "M"(0)))
      Console.WriteLine(GetGangsterNameP("Shelly", "Sharp", "F"(0)))
   End Sub
End Module

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 14 · 2012-01-25T22:02:27+00:00

Any form is submitted the same way. The variables you use will be specific to the form you are calling.
Can you show me the HTML code for the form you are trying to submit?

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 15 · 2012-01-26T21:13:34+00:00

its basicly subject and message i want to change and add a value to and click btnbutton.

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thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 16 · 2012-01-27T00:21:30+00:00

Right.
Inside that page is a form.
The action on the form says action="/uk/jforum.page"
...which will need to be converted to the full URI in your code starting with "http"
It has a bunch of variables
action=sendSave
module=pm
preview=0
bunker=
request_hash=
start=
toUserNaame=EvilGearPL
toUserId=100
subject={some subject goes here}
message={message body goes here} // will need to be converted to query-string allowable text

You will need to experiment to find which variables are optional.
So, using the same technique mentioned earlier, you can do the same thing.

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 17 · 2012-01-27T20:57:04+00:00

i wouldnt have a clue fella =/ do u know any guide sites i can start learnings http reqesting and posting?

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 18 · 2012-01-30T07:49:09+00:00

in your code there is no commands to replace HTML comments, u added variables into the URL but im really needing to change the HTML so i can add value to source.

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 19 · 2012-01-30T09:40:55+00:00

You don't change the HTML for what you are trying to do. You just build a string that is the URI + a question-mark + the Query string

The query string will be each variable, an equal-sign and the value separated by ampersands.

One of the variables is the subject; one is the body. There are others that will need to be filled for it to work properly. All of those are mentioned in that other post.

Keep in mind: When you interact with the page manually, you do not modify the HTML; you only modify the values that are passed to the "action" page through the QUERY string.

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 20 · 2012-01-31T08:24:57+00:00

finally starting to get your code now lol
one problem i cant still see what the output is after, and how do i know if its been sucsessfull post? (ive checked my outbox and inbox as thats my forum id) and im logged in in Internew explorer.

Here is my new code but not working, Appreciate all your help.

Module Module1
    Function pmMe(ByVal strsubject As String, ByVal strmessage As String, ByVal UserID As Char) As String
        Dim strRetVal As String = ""
        Dim strUri As String =
           "http://forum.ea.com/uk/pm/sendTo/" & UserID & ".page?" &
           "toUserId=" & UserID &
           "&subject=" & strsubject &
           "&message=" & strmessage
        Dim wc As New WebClient
        Dim fileWebIn As New StreamReader(wc.OpenRead(strUri))
        Dim rxGangsterName As New Regex("<b>(.* '.*' .*)</b>")
        Dim strData As String
        While Not fileWebIn.EndOfStream
            strData = fileWebIn.ReadLine()
            If (rxGangsterName.IsMatch(strData)) Then
                strRetVal = rxGangsterName.Match(strData).Groups(1).Value
            End If
        End While
        fileWebIn.Close()
        Return strRetVal
    End Function


    Public Sub Main(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs, ByVal X As Integer, ByVal XX As Integer)
        Console.WriteLine(pmMe("725790", "hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii", "this is my message to you!"(0)))
    End Sub
End Module

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 21 · 2012-01-31T18:03:14+00:00

A couple of things. That rxGangsterName is looking for something specific that will not be on your forums page in the same manner.

After you remove the RegEx (for now), and step through this in the debugger, what lines are being read by the StreamReader?

Do you see something go by that looks like a failed login message?

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 22 · 2012-01-31T19:28:48+00:00

i get errors from:

If (rxGangsterName.IsMatch(strData)) Then
            strRetVal = rxGangsterName.Match(strData).Groups(1).Value
         End If

Am i right in saying that $subject will replace the element value insubject to what i enter?

Also what is the Regex for? <b>(.* '.*' .*)</b> as i dont see this code in the gangster page. i understand that . = any char and * = any length, but what is it trying to find and what would i be using it to find.

Cheers dude.

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 23 · 2012-01-31T21:16:07+00:00

Yes, you are correct.

[Regex]
That Regex looks for characters inside single-quotes surrounded by BOLD tags.
That gangster page returns the results in bold tags with the nickname in single-quotes.

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 24 · 2012-02-01T00:12:03+00:00

ah ok fella, so how does the subject and message find the correct box to enter the information.

What is the purpose of the regex anyways is this just to confirm that is has been posted sucsessfully on the name that you posted?
Does it find "subject" and change the value since i added "&subject="

Can you confirm that it finds it by class or element id or w/e. what does it find the field by.

thines01 401 Postaholic Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 25 · 2012-02-01T02:04:08+00:00

[This part is not about Regex]
It does not "find" anything; it TELLS the program what subject to use.
...same thing with all of the fields.

There is nothing graphical about it -- they're just settings that represent those edit fields and boxes-n-such.

[Regex]
I not only used to Regex to confirm the submission but to actually PARSE out the nickname and return it to me. http://xkcd.com/208/

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 26 · 2012-02-01T02:56:39+00:00

ah ok fella. how come i cant view the end result as i did block out Exit Sub and still nothing. and where do i define the submit button?

cheers for all your explaining fella

daydie 12 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 27 · 2012-02-01T03:41:01+00:00

ah rite i changed to:

Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports System.IO


Module Module1
    Function pmMe(ByVal strsubject As String, ByVal strmessage As String, ByVal UserID As Char) As String
        Dim strRetVal As String = ""
        Dim strUri As String =
           "http://forum.ea.com/uk/jforum.page?" &
           "toUserId=" & UserID &
           "&subject=" & strsubject &
           "&message=" & strmessage
        Dim wc As New WebClient
        Dim fileWebIn As New StreamReader(wc.OpenRead(strUri))
        Dim rxGangsterName As New Regex("<b>(.* '.*' .*)</b>")
        Dim strData As String
        While Not fileWebIn.EndOfStream
            strData = fileWebIn.ReadLine()
            If (rxGangsterName.IsMatch(strData)) Then
                strRetVal = rxGangsterName.Match(strData).Groups(1).Value
            End If
        End While
        fileWebIn.Close()
        Return strRetVal
    End Function


    Public Sub Main(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs, ByVal X As Integer, ByVal XX As Integer)
        Console.WriteLine(pmMe("725790", "hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii", "this is my message to you!"(0)))
    End Sub
End Module

which now includes the submit url. i know even the regex is wrong but its not working. can u see any faults. I cant see any message on program open or exit regarding the code. Also i cant see any messages sent or recieved in my inbox. Which is auto logged in in IE.

Download, Edit and Post HTTP Request?

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